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Lowering the temperatureCanmetMINING is discovering more energy-efficient ways to recover critical minerals

CanmetMINING is discovering more energy-efficient ways to recover critical minerals

By Carolyn Gruske

May 20, 2021

Courtesy of Janice Zinck, Yves Thibault and Joanne Gamage McEvoy

Digging rocks out of the ground is only one part of the extraction equation. Processing minerals in a way that gets the most ore out of the rock using the least amount of energy possible is an equally important step.

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