The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower | WIRED
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine migh...
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The Colorado School of Mines Wants to Launch the First-Ever Space Mining Program
WIRED: The first-ever graduate program for space miners-in-training is set to launch next year. And the inaugural class is already taking lessons.
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Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries || Nature
Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common e...
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Searching for lithium deposits with satellites - Prospecting from space | The Economist
CORNWALL, a rugged peninsula that forms Britain’s south-western extremity, has a history of mining going back thousands of years. Its landscape is ...
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Race to the bottom - Undersea mining - The Economist
Mining the ocean floor is about to go mainstream "PATANIA ONE sits in a large shed on the outskirts of Antwerp. Green and cuboid, with an interi...
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Glencore faces a DoJ probe stretching from Africa to the Americas || The Economist
IT EMERGED on July 2nd that Hollywood may make “The King of Oil”, a film about Marc Rich, an American-Swiss commodities trader who became a fabulou...
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Trouble in the Congo: The Misadventures of Glencore — Business Week
What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it.
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Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean - The Atlantic
It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. "... Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwate...
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The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements - Stratfor (2019) World View
These not-so-rare but still increasingly important members of the periodic table are causing supply chain quandaries for global powers including Ch...
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