Ground vibration and air-blast over pressure are two significant undesirables, among many environmental risks, in open-pit mining . Gaining control over the ground vibrations generated by rock blasts had been difficult ...

Rare earth elements (REEs), a group of 17 elements comprises 15 lanthanides, scandium and yttrium, are largely attracting the world’s attention due to their importance in a wide variety of advanced technological applications. ...

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are a set of seventeen chemically similar elements in the periodic table, including fifteen metallic elements of the lanthanide series. Yttrium and Scandium. REEs are significantly used in ...

Mineral exploration is a stochastic process of finding and locating commercially viable mineral resources. In this regard, lake sediment is an important material in exploration as it contains three distinct types of ...

Gold is one of the highly demanded precious metals which have applications in jewellery, investment, electronic and medical industries due to its unique chemical and physical characteristics. Although the demand for gold ...

Rare earth elements include lanthanide series elements plus Sc and Y. These 17 elements are characterised by the European Union (EU) as critical raw materials with significant supply risk due to their broad of emerging ...

Rare Earth Element (REE) quantity is a main factor that determines the wealth of a country. The main aim of this study is to discover a new REE deposit that can contribute to the Sri Lankan economy. Calido Beach is a ...

Phosphate fertilizer is an important input in agriculture, in the scenario of increasing food demand with the population increase. Global rock phosphate reserves are finite and exhaustible. This leads to the search for ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are currently the most strategic elements in the world due to their significance in the diversified technological applications. Currently, a total of 478 million tonnes of REE resources is ...