#rare-earth-minerals — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rare-earth-minerals, aggregated by home.social.
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'China does have the world’s largest reserves of rare earths, and it mines more of them than any other nation. But that does not mean it has a monopoly on geological supplies of these and other critical minerals'
#geopolitics #rareEarthMinerals #wasteManagement
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/china-us-rare-earths.html
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Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk
60 Minutes reveals how corporations rely on subsidies while avoiding risk—rare earths, shipbuilding, and more expose capitalism’s structural failure.
#capitalism #ChinaEconomy #corporateGreed #CorporateSocialism #CorporateWelfare #EconomicInequality #GovernmentSubsidies #industrialPolicy #infrastructure #MedicareAdvantage #neoliberalism #progressiveEconomics #publicInvestment #rareEarthMinerals #shipbuilding https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oNj -
#GoldExtraction from #EWaste gets 10 times more efficient with new sponge material
Researchers developed a nanoscale cross-dimensional composite material via self-assembly of two-dimensional graphene oxide and one-dimensional chitosan macromolecules.
By Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Oct 27, 2024
"Researchers have developed a new type of material that’s 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, the material is a type of sponge made of #GrapheneOxide and #chitosan [shrimp shells].
"The material can reportedly transform the way gold is extracted from electronic wastes, which has been described so far as a dirty business with low yields and results in toxic #pollutants.
"The cheaper, cleaner and efficient method was tested by researchers using real e-waste provided by a recycling company."
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"While the present work focused on gold, the team say the technique could be adapted to recover other valuable metals such as #silver, #platinum or #palladium from #ElectronicWaste or even #mining residues. And that is not all: as well as e-waste, the technology might be applied to a wider range of environmental cleaning efforts, such as filtering out #HeavyMetals from #PollutedWater sources or industrial effluents, reported Physics World."
Read more:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/gold-extraction-from-e-waste-sponge
Article in Physics World - Eco-friendly graphene composite recovers gold from e-waste24 Oct 2024
https://physicsworld.com/a/eco-friendly-graphene-composite-recovers-gold-from-e-waste/
#SolarPunkSunday #NoGoldMining
#EWasteRecycling #MetalsExtraction #Electronics #RareEarthMinerals #Recycling #NewTechnology #ShrimpShells -
#ECUADOR IS NOT ABOUT DRUG CARTELS
it’s about committing #genocide against Amazonian Originarios in the name of #Chevron
❝ How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger | Truthout - https://truthout.org/articles/how-chevron-polluted-the-amazon-and-fought-environmental-lawyer-steven-donziger/
GAZA #methane
UKRAINE #oil #rareEarthMinerals
NIGERIA oil
SOUTH SUDAN oil
VENEZUELA oil
ECUADOR oil
GREENLAND methane, rare earth mineralsthis criminal cartel has to be stopped
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CW: #tRump #Clankers #BullShit
Trump Taps Pentagon AI to Set Prices for Critical Minerals
https://ground.news/article/trump-taps-pentagon-ai-to-set-prices-for-critical-minerals?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share
-The US who produces Zero #RareEarthMinerals is going to use #AI to set their prices? Moron, it's the seller who sets the price not the buyer, and definitely not your broken AI! If you don't like the price Canada is selling at (with a insane pumpkin surcharge) you can try China, if you don't like either price you can try ... Oh there is no one else 😭😭😭 -
Balochistan - Where Insurgency, Rare Earth Minerals, and Great-Power Rivalry Converge
#Balochistan #Terrorism #RareEarthMinerals #TechnoGeopolitics #MineralSovereignty #ResourceGovernace #Pakistan
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Watch Live | JD Vance Speaks At Critical Minerals Meet | Marco Rubio | White House
The United States is hosting ministers from dozens of countries for a critical minerals conference in Washington, DC, this week. Officials are seeking to strengthen and diversify their nations’ stockpiles of critical minerals, which are essential for the defence industry and for the development of artificial intelligence. #jdvance #rareearthminerals #criticalminerals #usa #liveMint is an…
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How difficult is it to mine rare earth minerals in Greenland?
A geologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland discussed potential difficulties of mining rare earth minerals in Greenland.
Diogo Rosa said: “Everyone talks about the rare earths again and that doesn’t mean they are the most feasible to be extracted.”
#Greenland #Minerals #Mining #RareEarthMinerals #RareEarths #Denmark
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Venezuela, for oil "independence" and the ability to maintain prices high enough to keep domestic shale production profitable.
Greenland for rare earth minerals, and oil, and to weaken China's grip on the supply of such minerals. Climate change denial, thus hastening the melting of polar ice and permafrost, is part of the strategy to make mining and drilling more economically feasible.
#Venezuela #Greenland #oil #RareEarthMinerals #war #imperialism
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Imperial Washington: Ozymandias on the Potomac
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/26/imperial-washington-ozymandias-on-the-potomac/
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power. By Alfred McCoy TomDispatch.com At the dawning of the…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #Books #China #Commentary #Economy #Nato #Netherlands #Portugal #Spain #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlfredMccoy #ElectricBatteries #ElectricVehicles(evs) #EnergyPolicy #GreenEnergy #InternationalRenewableEnergyAgency #PercyByssheShelley #RareEarthMinerals #RobertC.O’brien #SailPower #SolarPower -
What Australia can learn from China to become the world's 'cleaner' rare earth refiner
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-15/australia-refining-rare-earths-environmental-challenges/105969994As the world grapples with the looming climate disaster, it's good to see people moving from fossil fuels to renewable electricity. Much of this relies on rare earth minerals, and Australia has some of the best reserves of rare earth minerals in the world. But, we're sending the raw materials to China for processing so we can sidestep the refining process — which is either very messy or very costly — and the consequence of how China does it currently is harmful to people's health and to the environment. I think Australia needs to set better safety standards, develop cleaner methods, and make sure the refining is done right by doing it here.
#Australia #China #RareEarths #RareEarthMinerals #Mining #Environment #ClimateChange #Renewables #RenewableEnergy
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China is rolling back rare earth mineral restrictions, White House says
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I’m pretty sure #Albo got some of the love from #Trump because #Labor pretty much wiped out the #LiberalParty at the last #federalElection.
Trump probably thinks the “Liberal” party are our version of the #Democrats & not the #TrumpWannabes they actually are.
The rest of it was the #TrumpRegime drooling at the thought of getting #rareEarthminerals so they can make more weapons of mass destruction.
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American fighter jets, satellites, guided missiles, and submarines all rely on high-performance magnets built with rare earths like neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium. #RareEarthMinerals #auspol
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US President Donald Trump said he has no plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping this month, accusing Beijing of ‘hostile’ trade practices after it imposed export controls on rare earth minerals vital to global technology production https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-says-no-reason-to-meet-xi-threatens-massive-china-tariffs-axqlfoht?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #USTariffs #XiJinping #RareEarthMinerals
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#Sweden’s plans to mine #RareEarthMinerals could ruin the lives of #IndigenousSami reindeer herders
By STEFANIE DAZIO and MALIN HAARALA, September 7, 2025
KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — "High atop the #LuossavaaraMountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other #IndigenousPeople whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.
"An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer migration routes. But with the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, herders say they need more geographic flexibility, not less, to ensure the animals’ survival.
"If a mine is established at the deposit of rare-earth minerals called Per Geijer, which Sweden heralds as Europe’s largest, Kuhmunen said it could completely cut off the migration routes used by the Sami village of #Gabna.
"That would be the end of the Indigenous way of life for Kuhmunen, his children and their fellow Sami reindeer herders, he said, in this far-north corner of Sweden some 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the Arctic Circle.
" 'The reindeer is the fundamental base of the Sami culture in Sweden,' Kuhmunen said. 'Everything is founded around the reindeers: The food, the language, the knowledge of mountains. Everything is founded around the reindeer herding. If that ceases to exist, the Sami culture will also cease to exist.'
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"Mining could reduce dependence on China but hurt Sami herders
"Swedish officials and #LKAB, the state-owned mining company, say the proposed Per Geijer mine could reduce Europe’s reliance on China for rare-earth minerals. LKAB hopes to begin mining there in the 2030s.
"Besides being essential to many kinds of consumer technology, including cellphones, hard drives and electric and hybrid vehicles, rare-earth minerals also are considered crucial to shifting the economy away from fossil fuels toward electricity and renewable energy.
"But if work on #PerGeijer goes forward, Kuhmunen said there will be no other routes for the #Gabna herders to take the reindeer east from the mountains in the summer to the grazing pastures full of nutrient-rich lichen in the winter.
"The village will contest the mine in court but Kuhmunen said he is not optimistic.
" 'It’s really difficult to fight a mine. They have all the resources, they have all the means. They have the money. We don’t have that,' Kuhmunen said. 'We only have our will to exist. To pass these grazing lands to our children.'
"Darren Wilson, LKAB’s senior vice president of special products, said the mining company is seeking solutions to assist the Sami herders, though he would not speculate on what they might be."
#CulturalGenocide #RecycleRareEarthMetals #IronRecycling #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LandIsLife #IndigenousPeople #IndigenousNews #SamiHerders
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China holds a powerful chip in its trade negotiations with the U.S.: rare earth minerals. How did they come to dominate the supply? @npr explains.
https://flip.it/5RBipd
#China #Minerals #RareEarthMinerals #US #Trade -
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JCAN-MA is honored to have Dr. Jeremy Williams, an expert in Geoscience and #RareEarthMinerals, talk about the promise--and reality--of rare earth mineral mining. We agree that a just green transition should create sustainable employment while reducing our greenhouse emissions...but that's not happening everywhere.
Please register here for our June 8th #climate conference to hear Dr. Williams explore this hidden but vital topic https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MjMwNjA1/304480
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Study shows how #EV manufacturers can reduce reliance on virgin #rareearthminerals
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-ev-reliance-virgin-rare-earth.html
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Financial Times reported China can make American #consumers feel the pain of a #tradewar in variety of different ways heading into the summer months and holidays, noting that US #imports 80% of their #iPhones from #China with other key sectors of US consumer goods reflect a very high percentage of imports from China:
90% of #rareearthminerals in the US come from China
80% of air conditioners
80% of electric fans
75% of #toys
75% of #bicycles
50% antibiotics #pharma #medicine #healthcare #economy -
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