Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 21, 2024) - Free Battery Metal Limited (CSE: FREE) (formerly, Titus Energy Corp.) ("FREE" or the "Company"), announces its strategic initiative to ...

Money doesn't grow on trees — but gold might. An international team of scientists has found a way to grow and harvest gold from crop plants. Called phytomining, the technique of finding gold uses ...

“Phytomining”–using plants to extract precious metals from the ground–is becoming a reality. And it might be a valuable way to clean up contaminated soil around old mines. Mining the world’s minerals ...

Alpine pennycress is one of a select group of plants that have evolved the ability to pull impressive amounts of valuable metals out of the soil. Photo via Shutterstock. Alpine pennycress is a ...

Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining. By Ian Morse Some of Earth’s plants have fallen in love with ...

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs). This breakthrough opens the door to a promising new way of "green mining" ...

Humans have been extracting useful materials from plants for millennia, but in the past few years, we’ve gotten particularly good at it. Case in point? German scientists from Freiburg University of ...

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Inside a lab at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, soil samples sit under a row of a glowing light bulbs hanging from a track only a short distance above them. In another room, a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...