Tag: rare earth minerals
Coffee, conflict and ties between Traverse City and the Congo
An escalating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has NOT stopped the relationship between a coffee cooperative there and a coffee shop here in Traverse City.
The Geopolitics Of Critical Minerals: China’s Grip & The West’s Response
Recently, I stood — virtually — before an audience of global institutional investors, invited by Jefferies investment bank to speak alongside six other experts on the deepening geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China and their implications. Amid this intense discussion, one of the central themes was the rapid return … [continued]
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The Economic Benefits Of Renewables That Trump Is Ignoring
Remember when the JFK declared that innovation wasn’t easy — but it was necessary? He described how organizing and measuring the best of our energies and skills would be a challenge that we were willing to accept. Innovation like this asks people to reinvent themselves — it’s a contemporary adaptation … [continued]
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BlueShift Electro-Chemical Process Extracts Critical Minerals From Industrial Waste & Seawater
There are many minerals and other valuable components that have commercial value in wastewater and industrial waste. The problem is that extracting them can prove so costly that there is little room left for profit. Furthermore, the existing methods for extracting them have some negative impacts on the environment. BlueShift, … [continued]
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Critical Minerals Are A Gold Rush The West Lost Sight Of
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence with the British Geological Survey. He’s been doing leading research with global collaborators on how much of what resources we can actually get at. Below is the first half of our … [continued]
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