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Sweden’s mining company LKAB is relocating the entire town of Kiruna—including a 113-year-old church—to enable continued iron ore extraction. The Kiruna area hosts Europe’s largest known rare earth ...

This Collection welcomes original research articles on metal extraction from ore and related technological innovations, optimization strategies, energy‑saving approaches, and environmental impacts, ...

A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

A new one-step, water- acid- and alkali-free method for extracting high-purity lithium from spodumene ore has the potential to transform critical metal processing and enhance renewable energy supply ...

Abstract: In the mining, processing, and use of minerals, iron ore information identification is crucial. Traditional determination techniques are always accompanied by problems including lengthy ...