Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech:
Amid rising demand, miners are turning to biotech firms to help them squeeze more metal out of aging mines ...
technologyreview.com/2026/02/03/1132047/microbes-extract-metal-cleantech/
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element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat
rock containing one or more valuable minerals, mined for metals but also non-metals that can be extracted from the minerals; metal ores usually contain the metals as parts of compounds with other elem
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