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Commodity exporting and economic development

Commodity exporting and economic development

Steel manufacturing and Carbon Emissions, Global Warming

Steel manufacturing and Carbon Emissions, Global Warming

Moon base - Water and resources on the Moon

Moon base - Water and resources on the Moon

Commodities - Hedge Funds, Futures, Short Selling, Financial Trading

Commodities - Hedge Funds, Short Selling, Financial Trading

Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Mining Asteroids in outer space

Mining Asteroids in outer space

Volcanoes

a collection of articles about volcanoes

Concrete and Cement - Construction, Building and Materials

Concrete and Cement - Construction, Building and Materials

Fracking, shale - oil, gas and energy

Fracking, shale - oil, gas and energy

Man-made Diamonds

a collection of articles and research about manufactured diamonds

Mining Industry and Business

a collection of articles and resources looking at Mining

Robots for Outer Space, and Deep-Sea Mining

Robots for Outer Space, and Deep-Sea Mining

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Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)


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The energy industry. A pioneering deal

Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer. Consolidation will transform America’s fragmented shale industry | Business (2023)


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How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?

One of Europe’s dirtiest industries has ambitious plans to go green | Business (2023)


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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? | MIT News

Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern c... (2023)


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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... (2021)


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Recycling - The metals in the car go round and round

But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ... (2021)


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The problem with reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is everywhere. But unlike plain concrete, which can last for centuries, reinforced concrete can deteriorate in decades as the r... (2021)


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Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever - BBC News

The world's biggest jeweller says it will no longer use mined diamonds in a bid to become more sustainable. (2021)


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Mars’ underground brine could be a good source of oxygen

Lab device splits water efficiently in Martian conditions. (2020)


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NASA's Big Moon News: There's Water All Over the Place

New research provides the best evidence to date of water on the Moon's sunlit surface and suggests this valuable resource is scattered widely acros... (2020)


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Copper Destroys Viruses and Bacteria. Why Isn’t It Everywhere?

It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses—including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020)


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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... (2020)


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How the scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong - BBC News

The Mekong river is being damaged by sand extraction, adding to calls for limits on sand usage. (2019)


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Why Chile is leading South America in lithium production - CNN

Chile is outpacing Bolivia in extracting the important metal. (2019)


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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... (2019)


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Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds - gizmodo

Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down... (2019)


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The Race to Develop the Moon | The New Yorker

For science, profit, and pride, China, the U.S., and private companies are hunting for resources on the lunar surface, Rivka Galchen writes. (2019)


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A brief history of concrete: from 10,000BC to 3D printed houses | Cities | The Guardian

The Romans used concrete in everything from bath houses to the Colosseum. Our modern concrete structures will never last as long (2019)


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Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth | Cities | The Guardian

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to the planet, to human health – and ... (2019)


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Can the world produce enough cobalt for electric vehicles? - Battery farming - The Economist

THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to... (2018)


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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. (2018)


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Diversity helped Australia weather the resources bust - Beyond commodities - The Economist

TOWNSVILLE, A COASTAL city of 200,000 in the state of Queensland, owes its existence to commodities. The local agent for a Sydney merchant named Ro... (2018)


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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... (2018)


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Digging itself out of a hole: Glencore 2018 || The Economist

The mining and commodities giant posted bumper first-half earnings today—with EBITDA up 23% over (2018)


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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... (2018)


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The Race to Send Robots to Mine the Ocean Floor | WIRED

As worldwide development rises for electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines, the demand for metals from the bottom of the sea has spiked... (2018)


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De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds - CNN

De Beers, the global diamond giant, has announced Tuesday it is launching a new line of jewelry featuring lab-grown diamonds... (2018)


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The Latest Moon Base Plans Are Full of Air - Motherboard | Vice

The Moon is fair game to private companies as far as NASA is concerned... (2013)


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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... (2018)


Article

What if China corners the cobalt market?

“Once again it is threatening to cause trouble, this time in the growing market for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), each of which uses about... (2018)


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Why West Virginia is so Poor

Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)


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Explaining concrete while getting buried in it

Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth. Offset your carbon footprint on … (2023)


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Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry

Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)


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Asteroid Mining Fast Facts

Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/sabinehossenfelder. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free... (2021)


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Rocks - Animated short film (2001)

As time passes, the two rocks Hew and Kew watch the world around them change rapidly. But there is nothing really that can disturb their calm... Su... (2020)


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Our Shifting Globe | Big History Project

Every volcanic eruption and earthquakes are a reminder that Earth is very much alive and in motion... (2020)


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