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Mining
Color illustration, hand in clouds holding silver ingot with wings

Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

Distillations Article
Torn red piece of company scrip

Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

Distillations Article
Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
Media Coverage
Black and white photo portrait of woman in uniform

Lou Henry Hoover, Lost in Translation

Distillations Article
print of a Goya etchingq

How the Elements Got Their Names

Distillations Article
A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

Distillations Podcast
Two children stare at cellphone in front of smokestacks

Choosing a Better High-Tech Future

Distillations Article
Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Distillations Podcast

How to Mine an Asteroid

Distillations Video
Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Museum
Oscar Torres

Oscar Torres

People
Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research

The Petroleum World

Distillations Article
The pit of Minas Ragra

The Rocks at the Top of the World

Distillations Article
Oxides of rare earth elements

Industrial Vitamins

Distillations Article
Lockheed Lounge by Marc Newson.

Aluminum: Common Metal, Uncommon Past

Distillations Article
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