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Mining brines from dormant volcanoes could provide the metals needed for a sustainable future – MINING.COM – MINING.com
Oxford researchers say it is possible to extract copper, gold, zinc, silver and lithium from brines trapped in porous rocks at…
According to the team led by petrologist Jon Blundy, this trapped, subterranean brine is a potential ‘liquid ore’ containing a slew of valuable metals, including gold, lithium and several million tonnes of copper, all of which could be exploited by extracting…
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