Chile seeks projects to extract cobalt and rare earths from mining waste

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Chile’s national development agency, Corfo, unveiled on Tuesday an initiative to promote the extraction of strategic minerals, including cobalt and rare earth elements, from mining waste.

The call for proposals, open until March, represents Chile’s latest effort to capitalize on its vast reserves of tailings — estimated at

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