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Salty solutions: tapping geothermal brines for rare earth elements

Jones Fredrickson, Emma
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Littlefield, Anna
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2025-08-05
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/180956
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As ever changing policies strain trade relationships between the U.S. and China, rare earth elements (REEs) provide China with leverage in negotiations, adding renewed urgency to seek alternative, domestic sources of these high-value materials. REEs are essential to the development and manufacturing of electric vehicles, wind turbines, semiconductors, and defense technologies, and are integral to the transition to cleaner energy. However, their extraction is not low impact. REE mining is accompanied by environmental contamination risks and potential impacts to human health, necessitating new solutions for sustainable mining practices.
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