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A new gold rush? Mining waste with micro-organisms to extract metals

Albert Van Santvoort - Business in Vancouver | March 29, 2023 | 10:28 am Education Canada Gold 

There’s a new gold rush, with tailings ponds replacing riverbeds as a metal source for modern-day prospectors.  Tailings – waste produced by mining operations – have until recently been considered waste, and an environmental liability that needed to be monitored...

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