Pyrite May Be Known as Fool’s Gold, but It Actually Contains a Kind of Green Gold–Lithium

 

Appalachian mining country seems an unlikely place to find a potential breakthrough in renewable energy, but samples of mine tailings in West Virginia have turned up plenty of lithium contained inside fool’s gold. The team of scientists behind the discovery described it as “previously unheard of” and they hope that lithium extracted this way could […]

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