Geometallurgist and NSF CAREER awardee breaks down barriers
E-Mail IMAGE: At an old explosives storehouse on Monogram Mesa just east of the Utah border, home to numerous different uranium and vanadium mines. view more Credit: Isabel Barton Anyone who's seen an old cartoon or film about mining knows the image of a sooty man making his way through a dark tunnel. When his lantern lights upon a brilliant diamond or a hunk of gold, he hacks away at the rock until the precious mineral is free. In today's world, of course, it's a lot more complicated than that. Minerals hosting important metals like cobalt, copper, uranium and vanadium are thoro...