In no sphere of activity was the need for such knowledge more marked than in increasing the supply of metals. The pressing demand for these necessitated the search by geologists for the minerals ...
Metals and mining corporation Rio Tinto and Imperial College London have launched the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials, as part of a programme aimed at accelerating the development of new ...
Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) and Imperial College London launched on Monday the ... using micro-organisms to harvest metals from rocks that only contain small volumes of copper; and the optimization ...