MINERALS PROCESSING
TAPPING MINERAL W
IN MINING WASTE C
OFFSET DAMAGE F�OM N GREEN ECONOMY MINES By the University of Queensland’s Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Principal Research Fellow/ Group Leader – MIWATCH; Kamini Bhowany, Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Kristy Guerin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Laura Jackson; and Partha Narayan Mishra
To go green, the world will need vast quantities of critical minerals such as manganese, lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements. But to some environmentalists, mining to save the planet is a hard pill to swallow if it leads to damage to pristine areas.
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