{"id":29453,"date":"2025-01-16T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29453"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:42:29","slug":"electrokinetic-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/electrokinetic-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrokinetic Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Electrokinetic Mining:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a novel technique which uses <strong>Electrokinetic<\/strong> i.e the application of a direct or alternating <strong>electric field to accelerate the migration<\/strong> of movable species, such as metals, water, and particles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issue with present technique:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, heavy rare earth elements (HREE) are dominantly mined from <strong>ion-adsorption rare earth deposits<\/strong> (IADs) discovered in South China, and the regional mining produces and supports 95% of the global demand of HREEs.<\/li>\n<li>However, the conventional mining applies excessive <strong>usage of ammonium-salt-based leaching agents<\/strong> to recover HREEs from IADs, such technique exhibits low efficiency and devastating environmental impact on the local eco-system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages of Electrokinetic Mining<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It reduces leaching agent usage by 80%, and energy consumption by 60%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High recovery rate:<\/strong> Its recovery rate exceeds 95% which marks a breakthrough in sustainable mining.<\/li>\n<li>It can simultaneously help reduce the environmental impacts and improve the recovery rate of REEs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is electrolysis mining?<\/h3>\n<p>Electrolysis uses a direct electric current to create a chemical reaction. This process is used to produce pure copper metal in the final stage of copper extraction from ores after being removed from the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/revolutionizing-rare-earth-mining-electrokinetic-technology-achieves-95-recovery\/#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">STD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrokinetic Mining  is a novel technique which uses Electrokinetic i.e the application of a direct or alternating electric field to accelerate the migration of movable species, such as metals, water, and particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}