Rare earth elements and old mines spell trouble for Western water supplies | INSTAAR | CU-Boulder

(Shelley SOMMER, University of Colorado at Boulder; August 30, 2021)

https://instaar.colorado.edu/news-events/instaar-news/rare-earth-elements-old-mines-spell-trouble-for-western-water-supplies/

Featured Research Article:

Enhanced Rate Earth Element Mobilization in a Mountain Watershed of the Colorado Mineral Belt with Concomitant Detection in Aquatic Biota: Increasing Climate-Change Driven Degradation to Water Quality (RUE and MCKNIGHT, 2021)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c02958

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Climate Change-Driven Deterioration of Water Quality in a Mineralized Watershed (TODD et al., 2012)

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