Metals like nickel, crucial for the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles, are in high demand. Butbuilding new mines to meet that demand can be difficultbecause the mining industry has historically faced community backlash, often over environmental concerns. New mining technologies could hel...
There are very good reasons for focusing on the potential of these "urban mines", also known as secondary mines to distinguish them from the "primary" mines where resources in the ground are exploited directly. A strategic challenge for the European Union Not only would these alternative resource...
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mining gets its name from the work required to “find” (mine) a new block. Much like miners in the analog world have to expend energy to find gold, coal, or lithium, Bitcoin mining requires miners to expend energy to find a new block. Each new block is a container for new transactio...
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Can geothermal energy solve the lithium shortage too? And here’s more good news: geothermal waters contain significant amounts of lithium. Conventional lithium mining has a heavy environmental toll: an estimated 15 tons of carbon dioxide are released for each ton extracted from hard rock mines. ...
through a global development program known as the Belt and Road Initiative. In exchange for well over $100 billion in loans to Latin American governments over the last two decades, China has at times received exclusive access to a wide range of resources including oil fields a...
Mind Your Mines: The Push to Make Mining Safer and Cleaner How to Save a Planet To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to stop digging up fossil fuels. But the switch to renewables doesn’t mean we stop digging altogether. Wind turbines contain literal tons of copper an...
Most countries are now taking these problems very seriously. In China, for example, crackdowns on environmental pollution have caused the shutdowns of more than half of the lead and zinc mines in parts of the country. Are Mining Industries Complying?