#manganese — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/225988/ U.S. and South Africa Discuss Potential Critical Mineral Deals #ChinaRareEarths #CriticalMinerals #manganese #MineralSupplyChain #NeodymiumPraseodymium #Platinum #ProjectVault #RareEarthElements #SouthAfrica #USSouthAfricaRelations

🦂🧪 #Scorpions incorporate #metals like #zinc and #manganese into the tips of their stingers and the edges of their pincers.

This #biomineralization process makes their #anatomy more resistant to wear and breakage during #hunting. Scientists found that the specific placement of these #minerals depends on the physical needs of different scorpion species.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/metal-scorpion-evolution/

#zoology #evolution #science #biology #nature #chemistry #entomology

🦂🧪 #Scorpions incorporate #metals like #zinc and #manganese into the tips of their stingers and the edges of their pincers.

This #biomineralization process makes their #anatomy more resistant to wear and breakage during #hunting. Scientists found that the specific placement of these #minerals depends on the physical needs of different scorpion species.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/metal-scorpion-evolution/

#zoology #evolution #science #biology #nature #chemistry #entomology

🦂🧪 #Scorpions incorporate #metals like #zinc and #manganese into the tips of their stingers and the edges of their pincers.

This #biomineralization process makes their #anatomy more resistant to wear and breakage during #hunting. Scientists found that the specific placement of these #minerals depends on the physical needs of different scorpion species.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/metal-scorpion-evolution/

#zoology #evolution #science #biology #nature #chemistry #entomology

🦂🧪 #Scorpions incorporate #metals like #zinc and #manganese into the tips of their stingers and the edges of their pincers.

This #biomineralization process makes their #anatomy more resistant to wear and breakage during #hunting. Scientists found that the specific placement of these #minerals depends on the physical needs of different scorpion species.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/metal-scorpion-evolution/

#zoology #evolution #science #biology #nature #chemistry #entomology

🦂🧪 #Scorpions incorporate #metals like #zinc and #manganese into the tips of their stingers and the edges of their pincers.

This #biomineralization process makes their #anatomy more resistant to wear and breakage during #hunting. Scientists found that the specific placement of these #minerals depends on the physical needs of different scorpion species.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/metal-scorpion-evolution/

#zoology #evolution #science #biology #nature #chemistry #entomology

Fascinating info about Manganese and steel production

https://bsky.app/profile/volberg.bsky.social/post/3mju6zl4kss2d

#Russia #Manganese #SupplyChain #War #Steel

#Manganese is often called the "strategic glue" of a modern military. You cannot build a functional 21st-century army without it, primarily because it has no viable substitute in steelmaking—the literal backbone of defense infrastructure. 2/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/853633/ How is Europe progressing on its CRMA targets? #BlackMass #Cobalt #CriticalMinerals #CriticalRawMaterialsAct #DataVisualisation #EU #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #geopolitics #Graphite #Lithium #Manganese #NaturalGraphite #nickel #Recycling #SyntheticGraphite

#Mining the deep #ocean
Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
More than 13,000ft below the surface of #Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with #copper, #manganese, #cobalt, and #nickel. It was 2022, and that pilot run of a subsea harvester by a Canadian business, The #MetalsCompany, was pronounced a success.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/mining-the-deep-ocean/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/137824/ Zimbabwe’s export ban: Can Zimbabwe process its lithium? (Part 1) #CriticalMinerals #DownstreamValue #ExportBan #GlobalCobalt #GlobalEnergyTransition #HuayouCobalt #manganese #PlatinumGroupMetals #PreciousMetalRefineries #SinomineResourceGroup #zimbabwe #Zimbabwe’sLithium

#SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

Oct 26th 2023

Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

"Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

"Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

Read more:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7x6JX

#SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

https://www.europesays.com/africa/75624/ South Africa Patent Office Grants Manganese X Battery Grade High-Purity Processing Patent #Africa #battery #grade #highpurity #manganese #office #patent #retransmission #south

https://www.europesays.com/africa/74953/ South Africa Patent Office Grants Manganese X Battery Grade High-Purity Processing Patent #Africa #battery #grade #highpurity #manganese #office #patent #south #SouthAfrica

Mineral Monday: Spessartine Garnets By Chris Tacker, NC State Museum Bald Knob is a type locality for several manganese end-member minerals. Hypothesis: a metamorphosed deposit of manganese nodules. #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineral #garnet #Spessartine #Spessartite #Manganese

https://www.europesays.com/ie/306776/ Liberty Bell Bay looks for new use for manganese by-product, after environmental authority intervention #biproduct #Concerns #Éire #Environment #Environmental #harm #IE #impact #Ireland #LibertyBellBay #manganese #RunOff #Science #slag #smelter #tasmania

The addition of #manganese to #agricultural soil significantly lowers plant-available nitrogen forms (ammonium and nitrate), resulting in reduced nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions and decreased nitrate leaching into waterways.
#Environmental #AgriculturalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/env01262601.html

We have a new #preprint. Using wicked electrochemistry and really nifty microscopy to look at how #manganese redox cycling and carboxyl groups play into the formation of #protodolomite.

https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/11460/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/290362/ CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries? #BeijingInstituteOfTechnology #CarbonDioxide #ChineseAcademyOfSciences #cobalt #Éire #ElectricVehicles #Environment #GlobalShortages #HazardousWasteWater #IE #Ireland #lithium #LithiumIonBatteries #manganese #NatureCommunications #nickel #pyrometallurgy #Science #StrategicMetalResources #TransitionMetals

CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries?

Chinese scientists have found a way to recycle lithium batteries using only carbon dio…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #BeijingInstituteofTechnology #carbondioxide #ChineseAcademyofSciences #cobalt #Electricvehicles #globalshortages #hazardouswastewater #Lithium #lithium-ionbatteries #Manganese #NatureCommunications #nickel #pyrometallurgy #Science #strategicmetalresources #transitionmetals
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/420473/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/703431/ CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries? #BeijingInstituteOfTechnology #CarbonDioxide #ChineseAcademyOfSciences #Cobalt #ElectricVehicles #Environment #GlobalShortages #HazardousWasteWater #Lithium #LithiumIonBatteries #Manganese #NatureCommunications #nickel #pyrometallurgy #Science #StrategicMetalResources #TransitionMetals #UK #UnitedKingdom

AI + robotics are here to stay. There are only two paths: deny & boycott, or accept & engage. Energy stress is real — but so are the solutions. Robots & data centers scale fast, infrastructure follows, driving sustained demand for #lithium #copper #silver & #manganese. This is a build-out story.

AI and Robotics: The New Indus...

🔬🥒 Oh great, another groundbreaking revelation from the ivory towers of academia: #Manganese, the double-edged sword of Lyme disease! Because nothing says cutting-edge #science like rehashing old news with a side of #irony and a sprinkle of #sensationalism. 🎓🥳
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/11/manganese-is-lyme-diseases-double-edge-sword #LymeDisease #academia #HackerNews #ngated

Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/11/manganese-is-lyme-diseases-double-edge-sword

#HackerNews #Manganese #LymeDisease #HealthScience #Research #News

Technologie privilégiée par les industriels automobiles d'aujourd'hui : TNMC = Technology #Nickel #Manganèse #Cobalt c'est-à-dire ... de la #terre.

+ #lithium

#Tesla d'Elon sud-africain sous l' #apartheid puis canadien puis américain puis fasciste : batterie essentiellement en #nickel pour l'autonomie, puis du #cobalt en élément de sécurité.

Produits finis #consommation sans #information : #telephone #ordinateur portable ...

#climat #climate #anthropocene #climatechange #climatecrisis #terre

Manganese-based aqueous batteries: one possible solution to the problems of lithium-ion batteries, according to this open access paper. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/celc.202500306?campaign=wolearlyview #sustainability #renewables #renewableenergy #batteries #chemistry #lithium #manganese #climate #electric

Kick your creativity into high gear with the help of one of our African Gold Pyrite slices. This combination of pyrite, quartz, and manganese can help keep you balanced and protected while inspiring you and aid you in expressing yourself artistically.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/products/african-gold-pyrite
#Pyrite #Quartz #Manganese #Creation #Creativity #Motivation #Crystal #Mineral #Gemstone #Magick

Kick your creativity into high gear with the help of one of our African Gold Pyrite slices. This combination of pyrite, quartz, and manganese can help keep you balanced and protected while inspiring you and aid you in expressing yourself artistically.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/products/african-gold-pyrite
#Pyrite #Quartz #Manganese #Creation #Creativity #Motivation #Crystal #Mineral #Gemstone #Magick

Kick your creativity into high gear with the help of one of our African Gold Pyrite slices. This combination of pyrite, quartz, and manganese can help keep you balanced and protected while inspiring you and aid you in expressing yourself artistically.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/products/african-gold-pyrite
#Pyrite #Quartz #Manganese #Creation #Creativity #Motivation #Crystal #Mineral #Gemstone #Magick

The controversial Georgian mine fuelling Europe’s new industrial arms race.

A troubled manganese mine is exposing the European Union’s double standards on environmental and worker protections.

Manganese, a black metal traditionally used to reinforce steel, is crucial for Europe’s green energy transition as it is used in wind turbines and electric car batteries. It's also vital for military gear like armour and guns.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250905-the-controversial-georgian-mine-fuelling-europes-new-industrial-arms-race?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Georgia #Manganese #EU #Mining #Industry

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry // #SustainableChemistry #manganese #SusInnoScience #MainzUniversity
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/08/27/common-metal-unusual-power

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry // #SustainableChemistry #manganese #SusInnoScience #MainzUniversity
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/08/27/common-metal-unusual-power

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry // #SustainableChemistry #manganese #SusInnoScience #MainzUniversity
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/08/27/common-metal-unusual-power

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry // #SustainableChemistry #manganese #SusInnoScience #MainzUniversity
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/08/27/common-metal-unusual-power

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal-unusual-power-new-manganesei-complex-breaks-lifetime-record-for-excited-states/

#photochemistry #SustainableChemistry #photoreaction #manganese #chemistry #SusInnoScience

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal-unusual-power-new-manganesei-complex-breaks-lifetime-record-for-excited-states/

#photochemistry #SustainableChemistry #photoreaction #manganese #chemistry #SusInnoScience

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal-unusual-power-new-manganesei-complex-breaks-lifetime-record-for-excited-states/

#photochemistry #SustainableChemistry #photoreaction #manganese #chemistry #SusInnoScience

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal-unusual-power-new-manganesei-complex-breaks-lifetime-record-for-excited-states/

#photochemistry #SustainableChemistry #photoreaction #manganese #chemistry #SusInnoScience

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal-unusual-power-new-manganesei-complex-breaks-lifetime-record-for-excited-states/

#photochemistry #SustainableChemistry #photoreaction #manganese #chemistry #SusInnoScience

#Manganese nodules are not static structures like stones, they actually grow. For 2 mm they need ... don't laugh now ... millions of years.

#Economy wants to harvest 5 million tons of them from the seabed with giant vacuum cleaners. As immediately as possible and every year. There is little understanding there for the hesitant attitude and resistance.

I, on the other hand, don't understand why these greedy rags don't seem to get it. Send them to the desert, where their dried-up brains can do no harm.

https://www.europesays.com/uk/165548/ Scientists identify genetic clues linking air pollution to neurodegeneration #AirPollution #Blood #brain #DNA #DNADamage #DNAMethylation #Education #Gene #Genes #Genetics #Inflammation #Manganese #Nerve #NervousSystem #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #Pathology #Pollution #Research #Science #Sclerosis #UK #UnitedKingdom

A low cost, open source, Cu/Mn rechargeable static battery

https://chemisting.com/2025/05/23/a-low-cost-open-source-cu-mn-rechargeable-static-battery/

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

What’s so special about Ukraine’s minerals? A geologist explains.

Ukraine’s minerals have become central to global geopolitics, with the US president, Donald Trump, seeking a deal with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to access them.

But what are these minerals exactly and why are they so sought after?

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250310-whats-so-special-about-ukraines-minerals-a-geologist-explains?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Ukraine #Minerals #Lithium #Graphite #Manganese #Titanium #RareEarth #Geology

Thinking idly about Manganese (DON’T JUDGE), I wondered if there were other elements whose names end with ‘-ese.’

Google Search AI preview claims that other elements in the Periodic table whose names end ‘-ese’ include…

Fermium, Einsteinium and Promethium.

#chemistry #periodictable #elements #manganese #artificialintelligence #google #googleai #ai

5% of the world's #mineral resources are in #Ukraine, totaling nearly $15T in value

#titanium #graphite #lithium #beryllium #carbon #manganese #iron #uranium #zirconium #polymetallic #RareEarth #minerals #materials #mining #geology #visualization #DataViz #Trump #Zelensky #OvalOffice #WhiteHouse #Russia #Crimea #Europe