Peculiar plants at the root of copper study
If you are seeking copper in North-West Queensland, an orderly row of Polycarpaea spirostylis may be a great guide.
The flowering plant is among four copper metallophytes in the Roseby Corridor near Cloncurry at the centre of a biogeochemical study.
These plants thrive in areas with high copper concentrations in surface soils where other species struggle, according to University of Queensland PhD researcher Roger Tang.
The in-depth study is expected to be useful not only in identifying copper targets but in the rehabilitation of mined areas.
Mr Tang said the significance of such plants was being. . .
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