#nickel — Public Fediverse posts

Arborek is renowned for great diving & manta rays... & maybe in future for the Arborek Resolution of solidarity among 20 island communities re extractive industries, & the Arborek Declaration of global indigenous rights & insights. 🧵 1/2
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-indonesia-20-indigenous-subtribes-seek-common-ground-amid-mining-divisions

#Arborek #RajaAmpat #Papua #diving #manta #extractive #nickel #mining #indigenous

Arborek is renowned for great diving & manta rays... & maybe in future for the Arborek Resolution of solidarity among 20 island communities re extractive industries, & the Arborek Declaration of global indigenous rights & insights. 🧵 1/2
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-indonesia-20-indigenous-subtribes-seek-common-ground-amid-mining-divisions

#Arborek #RajaAmpat #Papua #diving #manta #extractive #nickel #mining #indigenous

Arborek is renowned for great diving & manta rays... & maybe in future for the Arborek Resolution of solidarity among 20 island communities re extractive industries, & the Arborek Declaration of global indigenous rights & insights. 🧵 1/2
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-indonesia-20-indigenous-subtribes-seek-common-ground-amid-mining-divisions

#Arborek #RajaAmpat #Papua #diving #manta #extractive #nickel #mining #indigenous

Arborek is renowned for great diving & manta rays... & maybe in future for the Arborek Resolution of solidarity among 20 island communities re extractive industries, & the Arborek Declaration of global indigenous rights & insights. 🧵 1/2
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-indonesia-20-indigenous-subtribes-seek-common-ground-amid-mining-divisions

#Arborek #RajaAmpat #Papua #diving #manta #extractive #nickel #mining #indigenous

Arborek is renowned for great diving & manta rays... & maybe in future for the Arborek Resolution of solidarity among 20 island communities re extractive industries, & the Arborek Declaration of global indigenous rights & insights. 🧵 1/2
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in-indonesia-20-indigenous-subtribes-seek-common-ground-amid-mining-divisions

#Arborek #RajaAmpat #Papua #diving #manta #extractive #nickel #mining #indigenous

#Minnesota governor signs order to stop any #mining efforts in #BoundaryWaters #Wilderness

August 18, 2026

ELY, Minn. (AP) — "Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz on Tuesday suspended state work on proposed mining projects in the #BoundaryWatersCanoeArea Wilderness, four months after Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration lifted a federal ban.

"The cherished wild area stretches for about 150 miles (about 240 kilometers) in the #SuperiorNationalForest along Minnesota’s border with #Canada. Thousands of canoeists, kayakers and campers explore the wilderness each year.

" 'It’s our duty as Minnesotans to ensure the sacred place remains wild, pristine and unharmed,' Walz, a Democrat, said.

"#TwinMetalsMinnesotaLLC, a subsidiary of #Chile -based #AntofagastaMinerals, has been seeking to mine for #copper, #nickel and other precious metals in the #NationalForest since 2019. It insists it can be done so no waste rock is stored above ground, eliminating a potential source of acid.

"The canoe area lies within the national forest just downstream from the mine site, raising concerns that digging could cause pollution.

"In April, #Trump signed a resolution approved by Congress that lifts a 2023 federal moratorium on mining in the forest. He said it would create jobs and boost the #MiningIndustry.

:Walz’s order says Minnesota regulators will not participate as a cooperating agency in any federal environmental review of a nonferrous mining project in the #RainyRiver watershed, which is linked to #BoundaryWaters."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-boundary-water-mining-walz-4123863c7030bbdec88a2a2aa888fd61

#USPol #NoMining #ProtectTheSacred #ProtectTheForest #WaterIsLife #ForestsAreLife

#Lateinamerika muss sich vor dem Ansturm auf Mineralien schützen #Bergbau #Rohstoffe
Die Energiewende hat Mineralien wie #Kupfer, #Lithium und #Nickel zu strategischen Rohstoffen für die Weltwirtschaft gemacht, die nun auf eine kontinuierliche und stabile Versorgung mit diesen Ressourcen angewiesen ist. In Lateinamerika befinden sich einige der weltweit größten Vorkommen an kritischen Mineralien. Auf #Chile und #Peru entfallen etwa 40 % der Kupferreserven.
https://latina-press.com/news/345599-lateinamerika-muss-sich-vor-dem-ansturm-auf-mineralien-schuetzen/

#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/

#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

For some reason the posts in my slow thread don't bridge to bluesky, although the post at the top did. So I just have to toot today's #CurrentBiology feature again: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/02/plants-recycling-metals.html #science #ecology #metals #recycling #phytomining #resources #nickel #gold #rareEarthElements

my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 3: #plants #recycling #metals https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/02/plants-recycling-metals.html #science #ecology #environment #nickel #gold #RareEarthElements

Svenska investeringar och lån till kritiska mineraler är en rapport från Naturskyddsföreningen som i sin tur bygger på en rapport från Oxfam som heter Financing critical minerals but failing critical safeguards. Sverige, svenska fonder och banker är en liten aktör i sammanhanget och de flesta svenska investeringar och lån går till Sverige, Brasilien, Chile, Finland och Austraiien.

https://blog.zaramis.se/2025/11/21/svenska-investeringar-och-lan-till-kritiska-mineraler/

Svenska investeringar och lån till kritiska mineraler är en rapport från Naturskyddsföreningen som i sin tur bygger på en rapport från Oxfam som heter Financing critical minerals but failing critical safeguards. Sverige, svenska fonder och banker är en liten aktör i sammanhanget och de flesta svenska investeringar och lån går till Sverige, Brasilien, Chile, Finland och Austraiien.

https://blog.zaramis.se/2025/11/21/svenska-investeringar-och-lan-till-kritiska-mineraler/

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

SciTech Chronicles.. . . . .May 13th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc051325

#AEM #PEM #Alkaline #nickel #pozzolana #"lime clasts" #quicklime #"hot mixing" #wastewater #"genetic material" #sequencing #PCR #genomes #CCR5 #"1000 Genomes Project" #chemokines #industrial #enol #light-powered #separation

SciTech Chronicles.. . . . .May 13th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc051325

#AEM #PEM #Alkaline #nickel #pozzolana #"lime clasts" #quicklime #"hot mixing" #wastewater #"genetic material" #sequencing #PCR #genomes #CCR5 #"1000 Genomes Project" #chemokines #industrial #enol #light-powered #separation

EU election’s shift to right signals Green Industrial Deal validation [Advocacy Lab Content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-elections-shift-to-right-signals-green-industrial-deal-validation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2024EUelections #Europeanindustry #globalsupplychains #Nickel

Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants [phytomining]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html <-- shared media article
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[I know that the USGS has some direct research ongoing in this regard; bioremediation has been around for a long time, in a sense this is a natural extension (pun very much intended)]
#farming #mining #phytomining #tailings #bioremediation #geology #mining #mininggeology #minerals #nickel #plants #vegetation #smelter #accumulating #biology #flora #agromining #metals #heavymetals #biomass #hyperaccumulators #bioore #naturalresources #minerals