See how NC State Scientists are using plants to clean up mining waste while also extracting rare, valuable metals.

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Rare earth metals that the company extracts from the rusty colored rock. (Photo by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Mining minerals from natural deposits is costly in both economic ...

A “breakthrough” discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University are working to change that. They're using plants to extract valuable metals from contaminated soil and water, a process known as phytomining. "At the ...