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Almost $100 Billion Worth of Rare Earth Elements May Be Buried in The US

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars. In a 2024 paper, geologists calculated that the waste ash from coal burnt in fossil fuel power plants may contain as much as US$165 ...
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Waste to wealth? Indiana exploring how to extract rare earth elements from coal byproducts

A container with 10 grams of yttrium, a rare earth element, is passed around during a meeting of the Indiana Rare Earth Recovery Council on Nov. 13, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana leaders gathered Thursday to ...
Earth Times

The Growing Demand for Rare Earth Elements in 2024

Remember when those 17 metallic elements were just a part of the periodic table your chemistry teacher barely mentioned? Now, they’re the key players in global politics. China makes 85% of the world’s refined rare earth products. This makes Western ...
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Rare earth elements: Of peptides and the origins of life

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group also includes lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, as well as ...
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ERI and ReElement Technologies Announce Rare Earth Elements Strategic Processing Partnership

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ERI, the nation’s leading material resource recovery, ITAD, mobility and data destruction/processing provider and largest recycler ...