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Global supply chain for minerals critical to defense, electronics, and clean energy, covering extraction, processing, and recycling of rare earths and metals.
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.
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A five-year, $3.3 million project led at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will test whether the biology that builds sea sponge skeletons can break silicon-rich industrial waste apart gently enough to free the minerals inside.
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Two years and more than 30 lawsuits in, the audit committee vote leaves Chairman Choi with a majority either way, which is why the October call option inside the Young Poong-MBK alliance is the term worth reading.
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Intel is up more than 300% since the stake talks leaked and down 37% since June, and the part of that gain still standing depends on courts and the next Congress leaving federal equity stakes alone.
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The Solid Minerals Development Fund is subsidising exploration to move minerals from about 1% of the economy toward a 3% target set six years ago.
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A modified Gluconobacter oxydans releases nickel and cobalt from ultramafic rock while parking carbon in magnesium oxalate, which holds two carbons per magnesium. It is still flask-scale work.
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