French researchers just grew plants that pull nickel from the soil—metal straight from the roots. No mines, no tunnels, no destruction. Harvesting rare metals like crops. The future is wild.

#Phytomining #GreenTech #SustainableMining #RareMetals #France

Cartoon. Title: “Mutuals” Two frames. The first frame shows Shane Jones with a jackhammer titled “Munter”, drilling into the earth, and saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!” The 2nd frame shows US President Donald Trump sitting atop a pile of rare metals, saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!”

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

♻️ Japan's 30-year urban mining dream realized! AIST's AI system automatically extracts 10 types of rare metals from smartphones & tablets. World-first facility in Osaka targets 2028 commercial ops!
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#Japan #UrbanMining #Recycling #RareMetals

How ‘Phytomining’ Could Put the Green in the Green Transition | The Tyee Using plants to pull metal out of soil could help curb environmental destruction and human rights abuses.

Yeah Plants to our rescue, again... thetyee.ca/News/2026/01... #phyto #phytomining #raremetals #renewableenergy

China is tightening silver export controls (announced in October) starting Thursday and has named approved exporters for silver, tungsten, and antimony for the 2026 and 2027 period

#SLV #Silver #China #ChinaSilver #SilverChina #CriticalMinerals #RareMetals #InvestInSilver #SilverInvestment
$SLV

Rare Metals, Grains, Water… When Governments Make a Grab at Natural Resources When China threatens the United States with an embargo on rare earth metals, it is taking advantage of its strategic position... Just as the Egyptian pharaohs did with tin.

#raremetals Between 2017 and 2022, #China alone purchased 87% of the world’s #lithium, 70% of bauxite and #nickel, 63% of manganese and copper, and 53% of cobalt, according to the CEPII.
www.lefigaro.fr/en/business/...
#econsky #mining #earthmetals

Auction page. Item 74: Mighty Zug mini. Yes, it's that one. (Displays the unreleased metal Mighty Zug model, where he's waving his helmet in the air and looking really cross but not really ST5.

Addendum:

I know it's a #charity auction, and I know it's a rare model (however many of these were even made, seems many for a thing was officially unreleased), but laying down £55 for a single #BloodBowl mini is kind of inexcusable 😆 better tell my wife which the […]

[Original post on dice.camp]

Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold the Secrets of 'Dark Oxygen' When researchers discovered

Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold the Secrets of 'Dark Oxygen' #Science #EarthSciences #Geochemistry #PolymetallicNodules #DarkOxygen #RareMetals

China has imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth metals!

The restricted metals include:

⛔ Samarium
⛔ Gadolinium
⛔ Terbium
⛔ Dysprosium
⛔ Lutetium
⛔ Scandium
⛔ Yttrium

#AcademicSky #EduSky #ScienceSky #Science #RareMetals #electronics #energy #defence #ElectricVehicles

Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ambitious economic goals.

Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #AsteroidMining #RareMetals #SpaceTechnology

Ever wondered what the priciest metals in the world are?

Watch to discover the top-tier metals that redefine extravagance. 💎✨

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#expensive #luxurylife
#raremetals #luxury #gold #rhodium #wealth #shinythings #metalmania #extravagant #pricey #treasure

Ever wondered what the priciest metals in the world are?

Watch to discover the top-tier metals that redefine extravagance. 💎✨

Follow for more amazing content

#expensive #luxurylife
#raremetals #luxury #gold #rhodium #wealth #shinythings #metalmania #extravagant #pricey #treasure

The Rare Metals Rush.

#trump #usa #raremetals #foreignpolicy #donaldtrump #ukraine #cartoon #politicalcartoon #gop #maga

[3/3] #Ukraine avec des réserves valorisées à 12.000 milliards $ pourrait réduire la dépendance mondiale à la #Chine, qui contrôle plus de 80% du marché. Les obstacles incluent l'occupation de 33% des gisements par la #Russie et le manque d'infrastructures pour les exploiter. #geography #raremetals

China to slap export controls on 25 rare metals http://dlvr.it/THpW15 #China #RareMetals #ExportControls #Minerals #Tungsten

China is feeding a tech-based trade war with its monopoly on rare metals China’s latest restrictions mark “several firsts in the trade war,” researchers say.

#China #TradeWar #USA #RareMetals #StrategicMinerals #StrategicMetals

China banned exports of gallium, germanium and antimony — known as strategic or rare metals.

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Scientists find huge trove of #RareMetals needed for clean energy hidden inside toxic coal waste | CNN www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/climate/coal-... Scientists analyzed #CoalAsh from power plants across the United States and found it could contain up to 11 […]

China is set to dominate the deep sea and its wealth of rare metals The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition, and China’s diplomatic efforts are positioning it to lead in deep-sea mining.

I'm even more worried about the environmental impacts than I am about the economic and security ones, significant as those are. wapo.st/3FILWW9 #deepseamining #raremetals #oceanconservation [I have no idea yet if hashtags are useful on this site, but it's a habit to use them.]

Landfill Prospectors RT @BieTanjade: #MOOC Wheels of Metal: Urban Mining for Circular Economy. #Recycling #RareMetals #Sustainable @coursera