“… current mineral supply meets between 10 and 35% of projected 2050 requirements …”
Category: Mining
China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape
The uncertainty from permitting and litigation compounds the challenge of reaching production in what’s often a volatile and uncertain market environment for these commodities,
Mining the planet for renewable energy
Reliable energy, human rights, land impacts, air and water pollution, lost wildlife get ignored
Assessing America’s vulnerability to a Chinese graphite embargo
The potential damage from a Chinese monopoly graphite embargo is quite large. Vulnerability assessment is clearly called for.
The Inconvenient Truth About Copper: Implications for U.S. Electrification Goals
The discourse around the frenetic, ill-conceived, and ideological fantasy of “climate policy” must evolve to incorporate these hard truths, ensuring that the path to so-called sustainability is both feasible and…
Steve Milloy on Biden’s Climate Agenda on FOX Business
Of course, it’s totally cynical. I mean, you know, Joe Biden is not doing this because he’s stupid or the people behind him are stupid. Half this country is for…
Argentinian Reform: Subsoil Privatization (Javier Milei, meet Guillermo Yeatts)
The case of Guillermo Yeatts for subsoil privatization should eclipse “climate change” as the number one policy initiative of the 21st century.
China Restricts Exports of Graphite, Key Mineral Used for Making EV Batteries
More bad news for the EV rollout!
US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions
the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of…
Carnage of Child Labor and Ecological Destruction “Elsewhere” acceptable to Wealthy Countries
The silence is deafening from billionaires like Bill Gates, John Kerry, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and President Biden.
Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction
They labor ten to twelve hours a day in sweltering heat and toxic mud, water and dust, in enormous pits hundreds of feet deep – hacking at rocky walls and…
Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities
Energy expert Mark Mills speaks at SKAGEN Funds New Years Conference 2023
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment and about as far from “green” as you can imagine
“Like any mining process, it is invasive, it scars the landscape, it destroys the water table and it pollutes the earth and the local wells,”
Sulfur: A Potential Resource Crisis That Could Stifle Green Technology and Threaten Food Security as The World Decarbonizes
By recognising the sulfur crisis now, we can develop national and international policies to manage future sulfur demand, increase resource recycling, and develop alternative cheap supplies which have minimal environmental…
The Quantity of Metals Required to Manufacture Just One Generation of Renewable Technology to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Current mining production of these metals is not even close to meeting demand. Current reported mineral reserves are also not enough in size.
Miners Explore Amazon Basin to Support “Green” Energy; New York Times Horrified
The Amazon rainforest in South America has large quantities of copper, tin, nickel, bauxite, manganese, iron ore and gold, making it attractive to mining companies all around the world.
ABC: Miners Ripping up the Wilderness to Feed the Green Energy Revolution
“Everything is now an emergency” – How can governments which declare climate emergencies refuse applications to extract Lithium and other vital minerals from sensitive wilderness areas?
Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels
Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the oil industry to drill. No…
A viable alternative to Chinese minerals hegemony
Unchallenged, China could choose to expand its empire southward and eastward, as Western voices are muted by their utter dependence on Chinese “generosity” in supplying materials for smart phones, wind…
Materials Acquisition for Global Industrial Change (MAGIC)
President Biden’s inability to comprehend these realities may be due to his diminished mental capacity. But it could also be the result of rarely having to exercise his mind –…
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