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Growing Plants in Copper Contaminated Soils
July 28, 2011 | Michigan Technological University

“When miners abandoned Michigan’s Copper Country, they left a lot of the red metal behind, and not in a good way. [...] A research team may have discovered how to make plants grow in the mine-waste desert and soak up some copper while they are at it.” Quoted from the Michigan Technological University news release.


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