Rare earth (RE) elements are a group of 17 chemical elements including the 15 lanthanides
plus Yttrium and Scandium. RE have been identified as critical elements due to their special …

Our modern cities are resource sinks designed on the current linear economic model which
recovers very little of the original input. As the current model is not sustainable, a viable …

Ultramafic soils are originated from ultramafic rocks such as peridotite and serpentinite and
are highly enriched in metals (eg, Ni, Cr, and Co) and depleted in plant nutrients (eg, P, K …

Aims Based on a recent taxonomic revision of the genus Odontarrhena in Albania, our work
aimed at comparing the taxa and populations of this genus in terms of nickel accumulation …

Dicranopteris linearis is a fern that grows naturally on the tailings of former rare earth
element (REE) mines in southern China. It accumulates REEs in its aerial parts at …

Aims Phytomining relies on the use of metal hyperaccumulating plants growing on ultramafic
soils. Such soils, naturally enriched with nickel, have drawn the attention of the scientific …

In Albania, ultramafic outcrops cover 11% of the surface and have the potential to support
nickel phytomining. In a large-scale in-situ experiment on an ultramafic Vertisols in Pojskë …

Agromining describes the technique of growing plants to “mine” metals present in naturally
enriched or contaminated soils. This technique comprises a series of processes including …

Orobanche nowackiana Markgr. is the only parasitic flowering plant in Europe which is an
obligate serpentinophyte. This plant parasitizes the Ni hyperaccumulator Alyssum murale …

The largest serpentine outcrops in Europe occur in the Balkan Peninsula. Kosovo, as a part
of this region, hosts an ultramafic area of 487 km2 within its territory. This work reports the …