Bauxite Residue: A Waste or Resource? (VIDEO)

University of Helsinki

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60 grams of bauxite residue generated of each beverage can. Wenzhong Zhang in his doctoral thesis in the field of chemistry describes a method for capturing small quantities of rare-earth elements from the waste heaps of the aluminium industry.

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Susan Heikkinen and Jani Närhi

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