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Received — 20 October 2026 ⏭ Bloomberg Originals

How Microbes Extract Pure Copper From Giant Piles of Rock

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By: Bloomberg Originals
20 October 2026 at 17:00

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On this episode of Primer we explore the use of sulfuric acid and microbial communities to unlock copper from low-grade ore — and why scaling the tech is so difficult

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-19/can-microbes-solve-the-copper-problem-video

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