Towards sustainable extraction of technology materials through integrated approaches

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Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

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Review on hydrometallurgical recovery of rare earth metals

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Circular economy strategies for electric vehicle batteries reduce reliance on raw materials

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Current progress and future challenges in rare-earth-free permanent magnets

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An Overview of the Status and Challenges of CO2 Storage in Minerals and Geological Formations

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Granitic Pegmatites as Sources of Strategic Metals

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On the materials basis of modern society

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Life cycle analysis of lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications

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The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy transition metals

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A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges

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Review of Lithium Production and Recovery from Minerals, Brines, and Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Lithium Resources and Production: Critical Assessment and Global Projections

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New approaches for extracting and recovering metals from mine tailings

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LCA — How it came about

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Accelerated carbonation of brucite in mine tailings for carbon sequestration

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Life Cycle Inventory of the Production of Rare Earths and the Subsequent Production of NdFeB Rare Earth Permanent Magnets

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Progress and Perspectives of Flow Battery Technologies

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Classification and characteristics of natural lithium resources

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Geometallurgy of cobalt ores: A review

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Life Cycle Assessment of a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

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Spodumene: The lithium market, resources and processes

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Rare Earth Element Deposits of Alkaline Igneous Rocks

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Water governance in Chile: Availability, management and climate change

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Life cycle assessment of cobalt extraction process

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A review of sustainable mining and resource management: Transitioning from the life cycle of the mine to the life cycle of the mineral

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Critical metals for electromobility: Global demand scenarios for passenger vehicles, 2015–2050

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Environmental Life Cycle Perspective on Rare Earth Oxide Production

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Investigation of the primary production routes of nickel and cobalt products used for Li-ion batteries

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Deep-Ocean Mineral Deposits: Metal Resources and Windows into Earth Processes

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Life cycle assessment of nickel products

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Life cycle assessment of electrolytic manganese metal production

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Lithium Brines: A Global Perspective

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Vein graphite deposits: geological settings, origin, and economic significance

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Understanding the future of lithium: Part 2, temporally and spatially resolved life‐cycle assessment modeling

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Simulation-based design for resource efficiency of metal production and recycling systems: Cases - copper production and recycling, e-waste (LED lamps) and nickel pig iron

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Cobalt resources in Europe and the potential for new discoveries

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Full graphitization of amorphous carbon by microwave heating

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Leaching of rare earth elements from eudialyte concentrate by suppressing silica gel formation

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REE concentration processes in ion adsorption deposits: Evidence from the Ambohimirahavavy alkaline complex in Madagascar

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Extended Life Cycle Assessment Reveals the Spatially-Explicit Water Scarcity Footprint of a Lithium-Ion Battery Storage

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Responsible Sourcing of Critical Metals

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Manganese Deposits of Africa

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Carbon emissions embodied in product value chains and the role of Life Cycle Assessment in curbing them

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Talvivaara mining company – From a project to a mine

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Simulation-based exergy, thermo-economic and environmental footprint analysis of primary copper production

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The process mineralogy of mine wastes

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Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Requirements for Minerals and Metals for 100% Renewable Scenarios

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