KoBold Metals, a Californian mining venture that counts Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as investors, has used AI to locate a major copper deposit in Zambia.
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FU ENVIRONMENT, IT’S THE BOTTOM LINE: PORTUGAL APPROVES LITHIUM MINING
Portugal’s environmental regulators have given a positive recommendation on Savannah Resources’ proposed Barroso lithium mine that will produce enough of the metal to supply 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs) annually, the company says.
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RECOVERING MINERALS THROUGH PHYTOMINING
Forward-thinking researchers are foreseeing a time when future generations of humanity are running short of minerals because their ancestors have used them up.
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MINING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY
Rare earth elements are key components in our electrified world, used in everything from electric motors to flat-screen televisions. But acquiring them is a messy business.
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HOUTHIS BLAME U.S. FOR UNDERMINING FRAGILE TRUCE
Houthi leaders in Yemen criticized the U.S. for undermining their delicate truce with the Saudi coalition during Ramadan that was reached earlier this month and seen as a potential breakthrough in the seven-year-long conflict. The U.S. said it sent up to eight ships to the Red Sea to counter illicit coal smuggling, weapons dealing, and...
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MINING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM TRASH
The world’s increasingly electronic and green economy rests on 17 metals known as rare earths, which are becoming increasingly scarce, especially since political turmoil has slowed production out of Myanmar, the world’s third-largest exporter. Since 2020, the price of the lithium carbonate used to make batteries for everything from smartphones to smart cars has shot...
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EU REGULATOR CALLS FOR BAN ON MAIN CRYPTO MINING METHOD
Cryptocurrency mining is taking such a large amount of renewable energy that it threatens to keep the European Union (EU) from meeting its Paris climate goals, Erik Thedeen, vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, said in a 20 January Financial Times interview. The EU should ban the most common form of mining, Thedeen...
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AI IS DETERMINING HOW MUCH YOU PAY FOR THAT
Did you get a great price on that new laptop, cellphone, plane ticket, hotel room, or supplement? Or did you pay exactly what a data powered AI intelligence decided you were likely to bear? Increasingly, pricings of items and services on online platforms are being tailored to users based on data that might be scraped...
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FBI: THE POLITICIZED POLICE UNDERMINING AMERICA
Last week Ted Cruz eviscerated Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department siccing the FBI on parents airing concerns at school board meetings. Cruz rightly condemned Garland for mobilizing the FBI to act on a vitriolic letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) that claimed parents constituted a “domestic terrorism” threat. Among other...
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NEW YORK MAY PULL PLUG ON BITCOIN MINING AS TEXAS FIRES UP
Texas and New York are likely to take very different approaches to the bitcoin mining industry. Who would’ve guessed? In New York, environmental activist organizations have spearheaded an effort to shut down plans to build energy projects in concert with bitcoin mining operations. The state has lagged behind other regions in economic recovery, and continues...