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Phosphate is as much 'climate mineral' as lithium
It's crucial to agriculture and EV batteries, scarce and concentrated in a few countries, linked to pollution from cradle to grave – why the low…
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The Mining Hop | Book(s) Review
Review of The War Below and Power Metal, two 2024 books that grapple with mining for climate action
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El Salvador ban, Nigerian lithium, Industry self-regulation | News Round-up #54
Also Trump fumbling, deep-sea mining wins and losses, Indonesia's nickel glut, and Nambia encountering the resolve of foreign firms.
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Cobalt miners call out 'neocolonialism' as firms avoid accountability
Lawyers in the Congo provide a rare look at the workers extracting a metal critical to the battery business
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The journey to responsibly mined lithium
Lithium operations in Chile's salt flats scored high against a tough standard. What does this tell us about achieving sustainable batteries?
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Batteries that concern the US | News Round-up #50
The US releases guidance on sourcing EV batteries. Battery metal prices take a dive. Scores of deaths at mine sites. Researchers urge greater…
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EU's critical materials plans worry Nordic Indigenous
The Saami Council, representing the Sámi civil society in Nordic countries, has wrestled with mining for years. The energy transition is changing the…
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Universalism and Sacrifice | News Round-up #53
And some news about the newsletter.
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Mines produce more waste than metal
Two experts spoke out about inordinate industry power over a landmark process to prevent deadly waste disasters
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Fear-mongering in the Cobalt-sphere? | News Round-up #52
In Peru, expansions and an order to pay medical care. In the US, tech companies aren't liable and a copper land swap upheld. In Brazil, regulators ask…
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Podcast: Pitfall author Chris Pollon on the need to mine
On the first Green Rocks podcast, I speak with Chris Pollon, author of Pitfall, on material demand, climate justice, and what the mine of the future…
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What if seabed mining goes wrong?
Citizens of Tonga are demanding answers about liability
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