Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

A National Energy Technology Laboratory collaboration with UW’s School of Energy Resources to develop technologies and methods for extracting rare earth elements from coal fly ash has started testing ...

OAKLAND — The difference in mining methods will have a lot to do with how the ground above the mine comes out, two experts told a crowd of area people in a potential mining hotbed Tuesday. Subsidence, ...

"The coal itself is not enriched in rare earth elements," Vanden Berg said. "There's not going to be a byproduct from mining the coal, but for a company mining the coal seam, could they take a couple ...