Finding the geological Goldilocks zone for rare green metals

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Finding the geological Goldilocks zone for rare green metals Finding the geological Goldilocks zone for rare green metals 01/02/2022 | 3 MINS A new study by researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology shows that the presence of temperature-dependent pulsating valves located at the base of the EarthΓÇÖs crust intermittently allow green metals to pass upwards to shallower levels. Professor Marco Fiorentini, from the Centre of Exploration Targeting in the School of Earth Sciences at LIT, is co-author of the study published in Nature Communications. Professor Fiorentini said the metals ΓÇô essential in the manufacturing of green technology such as battery storage devices, solar panels and wind turbines ΓÇô were largely stored in the mantle of our planet at depths inaccessible to direct exploration. ΓÇ£Fortunately, every now and then nature does most of the hard work for us,ΓÇ¥ he said. ΓÇ£At times, green metals are extracted from the deep mantle and transported into the overlying shallower crust through the formation and build-up of

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February Finding the geological Goldilocks zone for rare green metals Finding the geological Goldilocks zone for rare green metals 01/02/2022 | 3 MINS A new study by researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology shows that the presence of temperature-dependent pulsating valves located at the base of the EarthΓÇÖs crust intermittently allow green metals to pass upwards to shallower levels.

Professor Marco Fiorentini, from the Centre of Exploration Targeting in the School of Earth Sciences at LIT, is co-author of the study published in Nature Communications.

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