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Australia’s rehabilitation of abandoned mines offers lessons for the world
Cosmos Magazine   16 November 2018   Australia  
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<p>Across the globe, countries are figuring out how to bring plants and animals back to abandoned mines. With as many as 60,000 such sites, Australia could offer important lessons. Bianca Nogrady reports.</p>
Filed under: Mining News
Data mining: How digging through big data can turn up new mineral deposits
Cosmos Magazine   02 August 2017   USA   Washington D.C.  
A lump of parisite-(La), a new mineral predicted by big data techniques and found in north-eastern Brazil. CREDIT: Luiz Menezes
<p>Mineralogy and mining are two things that often go hand-in-hand. But scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science are mining something different – big data, and it may have a significant impact on how minerals are studied and discovered.<br><br>There ...
Filed under: Economic Geology