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Agromining: Farming for Metals - Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Agromining: Farming for Metals - Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Mineral Resource Reviews
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This is the first book on global agromining/phytomining technology.
It presents the complete metal farming or agromining chain; an
emerging technology expected to be transformative in the extraction
of resources of those elements not accessible by traditional mining
techniques. Meeting the demand for critical minerals (rare earth
elements, platinum group elements, nickel cobalt) is increasingly
difficult in the 21st century due to resource depletion and
geopolitical factors. Agromining uses hyperaccumulator plants as
"metal crops" farmed on sub-economic soils or mineral waste to
obtain valuable elements. This book, which follows the metal
farming chain, starts with the latest information on the global
distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants, biogeochemical
pathways, the influence of rhizosphere microbes, as well as aspects
of propagation and conservation of these unusual plants. It then
presents the state of the art in new tools for identifying
hyperaccumulator plants and for understanding their physiology and
molecular biology. It goes on to describe the agronomy of "metal
crops," and opportunities for incorporating agromining into
rehabilitation and mine closure, including test-cases of nickel,
cobalt, selenium, thallium, rare earth elements and PGEs. Finally,
it concludes with an overview of the latest developments in the
processing of bio-ores and associated products. This book is edited
and authored by the pioneers in the field who have been at the
foreground of the development of agromining over the past three
decades. It is timely as agromining is now at a pivotal point in
its development with rapid expansion of activities in the field
around the globe. As such it is of interest to environmental
professionals in the minerals industry, government regulators and
academics.
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