A new way to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) could help transform the environmental pollution problem into an important domestic source of the critical rare earth elements needed to produce technology ...
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A decade ago, West Virginia University researchers were among the first to find rare earth elements in acid mine drainage ...
For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg's estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 ...
Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...
Ask anyone in the communities where coal mining once dominated: acid mine drainage is a major problem. Streams and rivers throughout coal-impacted communities are a sickly orange because of acid mine ...
With funding from the University of Colorado's Outreach Committee, we are assisting the Coal Creek Watershed Coalition (CCWC) in assessing the amount and location of metal inputs to Coal Creek. Coal ...
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Research from North Carolina State University shows plants can extract rare earth metals from contaminated sites.
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