'Mushroom Mining' Could Be Cheap Way to Recover Rare Earth Minerals from Industrial Waste

'Mushroom Mining' Could Be Cheap Way to Recover Rare Earth Minerals from Industrial Waste

Decades of underinvestment in mining and refining across Europe and North America has landed the manufacturing sector in a problem, which a group of scientists believe can be helped by mushrooms rather than excavators. One must have been living under a rock not to have recently read the terms “critical minerals” or “rare earth elements.” […] The post ‘Mushroom Mining’ Could Be Cheap Way to Recover Rare Earth Minerals from Industrial Waste appear…