{"id":120456,"date":"2021-03-11T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/rare-earth-unlocks-copper-gold-and-silver-secrets"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:09:15","slug":"rare-earth-unlocks-copper-gold-and-silver-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/rare-earth-unlocks-copper-gold-and-silver-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Rare earth unlocks copper, gold and silver secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-earth-unlocks-copper-gold-and-silver-secrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study by Monash scientists has found that a rare earth affects the fate of a key reaction with copper, gold, silver, and uranium mineralisation.<\/p>\n<p>The work is part of the \u201cOlympic Dam in a test tube\u201d project, where researchers tried to reproduce the processes that resulted in the concentration of more than a trillion dollars worth of metals at Olympic Dam in South Australia in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, found that Cerium, which belongs to the group of elements called \u2018rare earths\u2019 speeds up important reactions and plays other significant roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by Monash scientists has found that a rare earth affects the fate of a key reaction with copper, gold, silver, and uranium mineralisation. The work is part of the \u201cOlympic Dam in a test tube\u201d project, where researchers tried to reproduce the processes that resulted in the concentration of more than a trillion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}