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  1. #PaxSilica is akin to a condominium of allies who negotiate advantages among themselves under rules defined by a controlling partner.

    Helberg sticked the doctrine up at the State Department’s blog:
    "The Digital Sovereignty Trap": statedept.substack.com/p/the-d
    "A armadilha da soberania digital": state.gov/translations/portugu
    "La trampa de la soberanía digital": state.gov/translations/spanish
    In French: mastodon.social/@estellep/1168

    #India already requested assurances that the tech provided would not be turned off. The switch button exists and a country that depends on it has already had to ask that it not be triggered.

    #killSwitch #hegemony #manipulation #ecosystems #innovation #digitalSovereignty #sovereignty #infrastructure #minerals #interference #intrusion #meddling #foreignPolicy #soberania

  2. is akin to a condominium of allies who negotiate advantages among themselves under rules defined by a controlling partner.

    Helberg sticked the doctrine up at the State Department’s blog:
    "The Digital Sovereignty Trap": statedept.substack.com/p/the-d
    "A armadilha da soberania digital": state.gov/translations/portugu
    "La trampa de la soberanía digital": state.gov/translations/spanish
    In French: mastodon.social/@estellep/1168

    already requested assurances that the tech provided would not be turned off. The switch button exists and a country that depends on it has already had to ask that it not be triggered.

  3. Pax Silica is a United States-led international project. Its declared purpose is to counter reliance on China in semiconductors, AI and rare earth elements.
    Countries that signed the "Pax Silica Declaration" at the December 12, 2025, summit in Washington, D.C. are: Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, United States. 🧶

    #hegemony #manipulation #ecosystems #innovation #digitalSovereignty #sovereignty #infrastructure #minerals #interference #intrusion #meddling #foreignPolicy #infrastructure #soberania #PaxSilica

  4. Pax Silica is a United States-led international project. Its declared purpose is to counter reliance on China in semiconductors, AI and rare earth elements.
    Countries that signed the "Pax Silica Declaration" at the December 12, 2025, summit in Washington, D.C. are: Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, United States. 🧶

  5. To complete its green transition, EU should mine its trash

    By 2050, recycling could fulfill half of Europe’s demand for critical raw materials, according to a new analysis.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #dailyscience #electronicwaste #energy&decarbonization #energytransition #environment #Minerals #mining #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/623863/

  6. To complete its green transition, EU should mine its trash

    By 2050, recycling could fulfill half of Europe’s demand for critical raw materials, according to a new analysis.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #dailyscience #Electronicwaste #energy&decarbonization #energytransition #Minerals #mining #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/713388/

  7. Powermax Minerals Stock Plunges to Record Low Despite Favorable Geopolitics

    Powermax Minerals shares hit a 52-week low, down 82% YTD, as market sentiment diverges from positive operational updates…
    #Politics #despite #favorable #geopolitics #low #minerals #plunges #Powermax #record #stock #YTD
    europesays.com/2929802/

  8. Norway struggles to launch the exploitation of Europe’s largest rare earth deposit.

    According to new estimates, reserves at Fensfeltet could reach up to 15.9 million tons of rare earth oxides.

    However, the project faces delays due to administrative procedures and high financial risks in the face of competition from China and the United States.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260412

    #Norway #RareEarth #Minerals #Mining #CriticalRawMaterials

  9. Norway struggles to launch the exploitation of Europe’s largest rare earth deposit.

    According to new estimates, reserves at Fensfeltet could reach up to 15.9 million tons of rare earth oxides.

    However, the project faces delays due to administrative procedures and high financial risks in the face of competition from China and the United States.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260412

    #Norway #RareEarth #Minerals #Mining #CriticalRawMaterials

  10. Earth MRI Acquisitions Viewer [#USGS]
    --
    ngmdb.usgs.gov/emri/ <-- shared online mapping resource
    --
    usgs.gov/special-topics/earth- <-- shared #USGS #EarthMRI home page
    --
    [wonderful #USGS #fedscience work!]
    "Earth MRI is modernizing mapping of the Nation's surface and subsurface. We deliver high-quality data needed to understand our Nation's geology, find new critical and other mineral resources, and inform decisions about how the Nation will meet its evolving needs..."
    #criticalminerals #criticalmineralsdata #hyperspectral #geologicmapping #resourceassessments #GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #opendata #minerals #mining #technology #EarthMRI #MRI #MappingResourceInitiative
    @USGS

  11. Earth MRI Acquisitions Viewer [#USGS]
    --
    ngmdb.usgs.gov/emri/ <-- shared online mapping resource
    --
    usgs.gov/special-topics/earth- <-- shared home page
    --
    [wonderful work!]
    "Earth MRI is modernizing mapping of the Nation's surface and subsurface. We deliver high-quality data needed to understand our Nation's geology, find new critical and other mineral resources, and inform decisions about how the Nation will meet its evolving needs..."

    @USGS

  12. अंतरराष्ट्रीय व्यापार मेले में उमड़ रहे हैं दर्शक, बेशकीमती पत्थरों को देखने का ग़जब आकर्षण।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #delhi #newdelhi #india #news #press #InternationalTradeFair #BharatMandapam #Delhi #IndiaExpo #Minerals #PreciousStones #Handicrafts #KhadiIndia #Superfoods #MakeInIndia #GSI #VocalForLocal #Expo2025

    Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

  13. Round 1 match 2 of #OreCup25 is molybdenite versus tetrahedrite.

    I have to give Molybdenite the physics vote (as source of Re used for geochronology, as a source of Mo used as a catalyst, battery electrodes, alloys of iron & semiconductors),

    But Tetrahedrite gets physics points for being thermoelectric (it can be used turn heat into electricity) & some arts points as a historically important ore of copper.
    #OreCup vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results

    #scicomm #minerals #molybdenite

  14. Round 1 match 2 of #OreCup25 is molybdenite versus tetrahedrite.

    I have to give Molybdenite the physics vote (as source of Re used for geochronology, as a source of Mo used as a catalyst, battery electrodes, alloys of iron & semiconductors),

    But Tetrahedrite gets physics points for being thermoelectric (it can be used turn heat into electricity) & some arts points as a historically important ore of copper.
    #OreCup vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results

    #scicomm #minerals #molybdenite

  15. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  16. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  17. Tuesday, July 8, 2025

    Russian weapons contain growing number of Chinese components — War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore — HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia — Russia striking NATO while China invades Taiwan ‘plausible’ scenario, experts say … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  18. Tuesday, July 8, 2025

    Russian weapons contain growing number of Chinese components — War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore — HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia — Russia striking NATO while China invades Taiwan ‘plausible’ scenario, experts say … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  19. Tuesday, July 8, 2025

    Russian weapons contain growing number of Chinese components — War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore — HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia — Russia striking NATO while China invades Taiwan ‘plausible’ scenario, experts say … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  20. Tuesday, July 8, 2025

    Russian weapons contain growing number of Chinese components — War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore — HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia — Russia striking NATO while China invades Taiwan ‘plausible’ scenario, experts say … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  21. Tuesday, July 8, 2025

    Russian weapons contain growing number of Chinese components — War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore — HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia — Russia striking NATO while China invades Taiwan ‘plausible’ scenario, experts say … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  22. Tuesday, May 13, 2025

    Russia brings in top-level FSB Presidential Regiment to Chasiv Yar; If Russians are using this level of specialists in urban combat, they are probably facing difficulties — International Civil Aviation Organization rules Russia responsible for downing MH17 — Russia decreased but didn’t cease attacks during Victory Day truce — 6 Bulgarian nationals sentenced in the UK for spying for Russia … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  23. Granite Sarcophagus of King Ramses III
    Detail of goddess Nephthys spreading her wings on the polished red granite sarcophagus to protect the king.
    20th dynasty, 1186 - 1155 BC.
    Louvre museum.
    By #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries
    #Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

  24. Granite Sarcophagus of King Ramses III
    Detail of goddess Nephthys spreading her wings on the polished red granite sarcophagus to protect the king.
    20th dynasty, 1186 - 1155 BC.
    Louvre museum.
    By #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries
    #Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

  25. Granite Sarcophagus of King Ramses III
    Detail of goddess Nephthys spreading her wings on the polished red granite sarcophagus to protect the king.
    20th dynasty, 1186 - 1155 BC.
    Louvre museum.
    By #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries
    #Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

  26. Granite Sarcophagus of King Ramses III
    Detail of goddess Nephthys spreading her wings on the polished red granite sarcophagus to protect the king.
    20th dynasty, 1186 - 1155 BC.
    Louvre museum.
    By #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries
    #Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

  27. Granite Sarcophagus of King Ramses III
    Detail of goddess Nephthys spreading her wings on the polished red granite sarcophagus to protect the king.
    20th dynasty, 1186 - 1155 BC.
    Louvre museum.
    By #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries
    #Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer