America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening on top of the waste that more than a century of mining has already produced, crushed and concentrated, then left behind. Arizona State University researchers are among those testing the technologies that would let industry treat that waste as an asset ra…
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