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Op-ed: Ensuring the mining industry goes full circle: recycling critical minerals

Today's energy transition is moving away from a linear economy towards a circular economy

Helen Beatty, partner, and Emma Sturt, senior associate, part of the Mining Group at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills
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Critical minerals are vital components of many of the technologies essential to the energy transition including in batteries for energy storage and in electric vehicles. Their importance was highlighted...

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