New improvements in recycling electronic waste, refining and processing can close the gap on China, says Department of Energy official
Robertson, appointed in October last year as the head of the Department of Energy’s newly formed Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, also touted US progress in critical minerals refining and processing.
“Our labs right now are working along with corporate partners on technologies that will enable the processing of multiple types of critical minerals within the same flow sheet. That would be game-changing,” she said, adding that the process is currently “heavily intensive”, where it’s difficult to switch from processing one type of ore body to another.
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Source: News - South China Morning Post
