Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has ...

A National Energy Technology Laboratory collaboration with UW’s School of Energy Resources to develop technologies and methods for extracting rare earth elements from coal fly ash has started testing ...

Researchers propose a new zoning strategy for open-pit coal mining, enhancing safety and efficiency while minimizing ...

OAKLAND — The difference in mining methods will have a lot to do with how the ground above the mine comes out, two experts told a crowd of area people in a potential mining hotbed Tuesday. Subsidence, ...

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