Agromining: Farming for Metals - Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants
- This is the first book on global agromining
- Phytomining technology
- It presents the complete metal farming or agromining chain
- An emerging technology expected to be transformative in the extraction of resources of those elements not accessible by traditional mining techniques
- Meeting the demand for critical minerals (rare earth elements
- Platinum group elements
- Nickel cobalt) is increasingly difficult in the 21st century due to resource depletion and geopolitical factors
- Agromining uses hyperaccumulator plants as “metal crops” farmed on sub-economic soils or mineral waste to obtain valuable elements
- This book
- Which follows the metal farming chain
