The combined extraction of oil and gas, uranium leach mining and rare earth heavy metal mining could contaminate the aquifer.

A huge underground water resource ... licenses to several mining companies across the aquifer system. Other mining companies already have the right to prospect for rare earth metals in the aquifer.

Not only would it involve landing robots on a rock, but also remotely building mining infrastructure, and then somehow sending the materials back to Earth. But it's easy to see why he and others ...

Analysis - A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. It supplies 50,000 ...

Ion-adsorption rare earth deposits (IADs ... emissions in groundwater and surface water, significantly mitigating the environmental impact of REE mining. The researchers emphasized that their ...

Extensive reporting by an Associated Press investigative team found that the mining of rare earth elements in Myanmar hides a dirty open secret: Their cost is environmental destruction, the theft of ...

Additionally, by mitigating some of the environmental impacts of rare earth mining, China could help reduce international criticism regarding its environmental practices in the sector.

Scientists chose to study a jellyfish species that is 'representative' of many creatures that live in deep water ... mining activity could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are under ...