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    Microbes used to mine magnesium from waste heaps

    2025-04-28T13:57:00Z

    Researchers have pioneered a microbially driven process that utilises low-value waste products, such as magnesium mine waste and sulfur from desulfurisation plants, to leach the wastes and generate a stream of solubilised magnesium.