{"id":24441,"date":"2026-10-20T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=24441"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:17:32","slug":"a-cleaner-path-to-rare-earth-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=24441","title":{"rendered":"A cleaner path to rare earth metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom\u00e1s Villal\u00f3n Jr. \u201914 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from\u2014Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing and metal fabrication hub. Even as a child, he realized it was problematic to breathe that air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m motivated because I\u2019ve seen what metal-making does,\u201d says Villal\u00f3n, who majored in materials science and engineering. He started thinking about sustainable metallurgy senior year while working at Boston Metal, an MIT spinoff focused on decarbonizing steelmaking. In 2019 he cofounded Phoenix Tailings, which has developed an efficient process for extracting rare earth metals from mining waste.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#cleaner #path #rare #earth #metals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom\u00e1s Villal\u00f3n Jr. \u201914 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12911,432,8773,2440,686],"class_list":["post-24441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-cleaner","tag-earth","tag-metals","tag-path","tag-rare"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Villalon_phoenix-tailings-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}