{"id":122437,"date":"2021-05-09T08:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-key-hole-surgery-technique-to-extract-metals-from-the-earth-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-mining"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:23:26","slug":"new-key-hole-surgery-technique-to-extract-metals-from-the-earth-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-key-hole-surgery-technique-to-extract-metals-from-the-earth-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-mining","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cKey-Hole Surgery\u201d Technique to Extract Metals From the Earth \u2013 Could Revolutionize the Future of Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-key-hole-surgery-technique-to-extract-metals-from-the-earth-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-mining3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A team of international researchers, including Dr. Rich Crane from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, have developed a new method to extract metals, such as copper, from their parent ore body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research team has provided a proof of concept for the application of an electric field to control the movement of an acid within a low permeability copper-bearing ore deposit to selectively dissolve and recover the metal <em>in situ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is in contrast to the conventional approach for the mining of such deposits where the material must be physically excavated, which requires removal of both overburden and any impurities within the ore (known as gangue material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international researchers, including Dr. Rich Crane from the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, have developed a new method to extract metals, such as copper, from their parent ore body. The research team has provided a proof of concept for the application of an electric field to control the movement of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}