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Old Gold Tailings Power Solar Energy’s Future

infomine - mining equipment and supplier news | March 2, 2010 | 5:05 pm

Tailings from Australia’s gold-rush could help a Victorian company strike it rich in a modern-day venture to produce speciality, high-value feedstocks that could be used in solar-grade silicon production. If successful, the work has the potential to increase solar energy use….more at International Longwall News