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Acid mine drainage

Acidic, metal-laden water flowing from active and abandoned mines, formed when exposed sulfide minerals react with water, air and microbes. It is both an environmental liability and a dilute source of dissolved metals.

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ORNL wins two more years to make bacterial spores pull rare earths from acid mine drainage

Oak Ridge is engineering spore surfaces to bind neodymium and dysprosium in Appalachian mine water, where those metals are dilute. The pilot's main output was the assay needed to tell one engineered design from another.

Publishers:phys.org

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