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Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little ...

Scientists say a mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within long dormant volcanoes is likely packed with the in-demand elementsAccording to a new study, extinct volcanoes could be a “rich” ...

What if the secret to cracking the world’s rare earth chokehold lay in the peaceful interiors of dead volcanoes? In a bombshell that upends conventional wisdom, laboratory simulations have shown that ...

Scientists have found that some extinct volcanoes, which have not erupted for thousands or millions of years, may contain key metals used in clean energy. For the research, scientists melted down ...

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new research ...

A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant supply of rare earth elements, crucial ingredients for electric vehicles, wind turbines ...

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A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new research ...