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These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Natasha Kumari cleans up after mining companies. This 31-year-old from Burnaby, British Columbia, is vice president of marketing and operations for Tersa Earth, which uses nature-based solutions to clean the water in mining tailings ponds and […]
Rare earth elements, a series of chemically very similar elements, have been much in the news in recent years because they are critical in many high-tech applications. This deposit at Mountain Pass, California, was discovered in the late 1940s and supplied much of the global demand for decades. However, the uses of rare earths were […]
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Visualizing the Supply Deficit of Battery Minerals This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The world currently produces a surplus of key battery minerals, but this is projected to shift to […]
“Imagine yourself in 1827 … Winter approaches. You are cold and hungry in a strange land… Your priorities: food, shelter, and smelting lead for income to stay alive.” So begins the Iowa County Historical Society’s introduction to the Dodge Mining Camp Cabin. Through this log cabin, which is the oldest building in the county, you […]
PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple AAPL.O subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government told Reuters. Source link
Most of western Bulgaria is a moderate seismic risk zone, but it is also blessed with many hot springs. They vary in temperature and the healing mineral they naturally contain, and have been enjoyed ever since Roman times. In Gorna Banya, the water has been revered for its healing nature for centuries. According to local folk […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government said. The DRC is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, the so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones. […]
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Could Copper Be the Next Oil? This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. In 2021, Goldman Sachs declared copper “the new oil,” highlighting its essential role in clean […]
Two portable drill rigs extract core samples at Graphite One’s Graphite Creek property. (Ben Townsend/KNOM) A tit-for-tat between China and the U.S. over sales of materials used for semiconductors could have wide-ranging implications for Alaska. On Monday the U.S. Department of Commerce added 140 mostly Chinese companies to a list of entities subject to trade restrictions. The […]
Quebec’s hydropower and critical mineral riches were key to saving a multi-billion dollar battery factory being built by Sweden’s Northvolt outside Montreal, after the company filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection late last week. The C$7 billion ($5.1 billion) Northvolt Six gigafactory, sited in Montérégie in the south of the province, was deemed essential to the […]