Rare Earths Mining

There ere actually teria that need some of the rare earths, just like we need metals like iron or calcium or zinc. And so as a result, there are very few deposits that are economical to those metals. So i thought that if we could understand how these bacteria have basically solved the problem of mining rare earths - it may be able to do this more efficiently. Mylab discovered the first molecule that these ba o make that binds rare earths very tightly and very specifically. It's a protein molecule. You can think of it as a person with arms that are flailing about. When the hands on those arms grab hold of a rare earth, the body curls up into