metals
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The Latest Mining Boom? Plants That Eat Metal And Scrub The Soil Clean
Plants that eat metal sound like a biological impossibility. But these hungry little guys exist, sucking tiny bits of toxic metal from the soil. They don’t just clean the Earth, either — they can actually mine bits of gold and nickel for use by humans.
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Why The Hell Is Everyone Stealing Copper?
Search the news for “copper theft” and look through the headlines. LOOK. Stealing wire to sell the copper? From a cell tower? What is this, the Great Depression? Maybe not, but there are some economically charged reasons which help explain this trend.