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The rare earth race
22 Oct 2025 05:00 GMT
… nearly three-quarters of global cobalt refining.
China also leads global … 40. Instead, American firms mastered hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, overtaking Saudi …
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Oil Companies Work To Harvest Lithium From Fracking Wastewater
13 Sep 2023 21:13 GMT
… for various minerals, including nickel, cobalt and lithium. This has created … of extracting lithium from hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. Lithium is typically … across the country. However, fracking wastewater lithium would undermine one …
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OH Governor Greenlights Fracking on State Lands
13 Feb 2023 08:57 GMT
… the chemicals used in the fracking process.
The result generates radioactive … regulations that treat waste from fracking as hazardous material - known … like this via email
A cobalt mining company and conservation group …
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The Selection Of Kamala Harris Cements Joe Biden’s Fracking Ban Credentials
15 Aug 2020 16:20 GMT
… gas production.
The ban on fracking coveted by Biden/ … as feedstock.
A ban on hydraulic fracturing would immediately result in skyrocketing … 70 percent of all mined cobalt needed in the electric … Congo, and most of that cobalt is controlled by China.”
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Fracking, Battery-Tech Show U.S. Technology is the World’s Strongest Force
19 Dec 2019 03:27 GMT
… could be drilled.
Regardless – fracking technology caused an energy boom … horizontal drilling!
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Cobalt and Lithium are valuable resources … Research has developed a cobalt-free EV battery that … because they are free of cobalt, nickel, and other …
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How energy politics fuels global militarisation
29 Jul 2025 17:50 GMT
… in the US, spurred by hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, has redefined … Strategy, ensuring access to lithium, cobalt, and neodymium is now part …
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Oil and gas well fracking creates a lot of wastewater. Here's where things get interesting
14 Sep 2018 08:27 GMT
Rather serendipitously, the natural richness of oilfield wastewater offers opportunities to extract precious elements during the recycling process. For example, in many shale energy basins, the wastewater that is generated during production (known as …
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Nth Cycle is bringing critical metals refining to the U.S.
06 Jul 2025 20:02 GMT
… recent decades, U.S. fracking technology created a new way … created as a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.
… mixed hydroxide (nickel and cobalt) production facility in Ohio. … needs more critical minerals like cobalt, nickel, lithium, and copper …
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Battery scrap becomes goldmine as US startup refines metals without polluting
27 Jun 2025 20:27 GMT
… of global critical minerals, including cobalt, nickel, lithium, and rare … energy insecurity.
In that era, fracking technology ultimately reversed American vulnerability … O’Connor studied wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.
After attending a lecture by …
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Nth Cycle is bringing critical metals refining to the U.S.
27 Jun 2025 04:12 GMT
… recent decades, U.S. fracking technology created a new way … created as a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.
… mixed hydroxide (nickel and cobalt) production facility in Ohio. … needs more critical minerals like cobalt, nickel, lithium, and copper …