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Mars Minerals Reveals an Ancient Ocean's Potential For Life - and a Possible Way to Make Oxygen (slashdot.org)

2026-05-30 | by Posted | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: mars minerals, zhurong rover, manganese oxides

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Apple says latest conflict minerals review found no basis to link suppliers to armed groups (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-28 | by Marcus Mendes | get Conflict Minerals Report Book → | tags: apple, conflict minerals, sec

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How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-28 | by Casey Crownhart | get Lithium Extraction Kit → | tags: lithium extraction, sublimine systems, silicate minerals

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Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-21 | by Casey Crownhart | get Critical Minerals USB Flash Drive → | tags: boston metal, molten oxide electrolysis, niobium

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The country needs a resilient domestic battery supply chain (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | get Tesla Powerwall Battery → | tags: battery supply chain, critical minerals, u.s. government

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Trump-Xi summit could hinge on these two crucial tech flashpoints (cnbc.com)

2026-05-14 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Huawei MateBook X Pro → | tags: critical minerals, market access, nvidia

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How the race for critical minerals is creating ‘sacrifice zones,’ impacting the world’s poorest people (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-03 | get Critical Minerals Mining Kit → | tags: critical minerals, sacrifice zones, electric vehicles

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Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-29 | by Tim De Chant | get Minerals Search Tech Book → | tags: earth ai, critical minerals, australia

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Canada's first sovereign wealth fund (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | by Senior Writer | get Canadian Sovereign Wealth Fund Book → | tags: sovereign wealth fund, canada strong fund, mark carney

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Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars (futurism.com)

2026-04-22 | by Frank Landymore | get Mars Surface Exploration Kit → | tags: mars express, european space agency, utopia planitia

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God sleeps in the minerals (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | get Mineral Sleep Light Bulb → | tags: natural history museum, los angeles county, unearthed exhibition

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God Sleeps in the Minerals (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | tags: natural history museum, los angeles, minerals

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Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-10 | by Tim De Chant | get Battery Recycling Kit → | tags: ascend elements, electric vehicles, lithium batteries

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Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Sean O'Kane | get Mining Automation Kit → | tags: tesla, mariana minerals, pronto

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This CEO doubled luxury watch sales to women. Now she’s using that experience to reinvigorate legacy beauty brands (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-07 | get Luxury Watch for Women → | tags: audemars piguet, orveon global, bareminerals

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Critical minerals are required to power AI data center demand (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-02 | get Critical Minerals Data Kit → | tags: batteries, critical minerals, data centers

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Inside a $1.1B deal to reshore critical minerals refining (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-19 | by Tim De Chant | get Critical Minerals Refining Kit → | tags: nickel refining, nth cycle, trafigura

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Affordable mobility for all: why we need smaller, cheaper electric vehicles (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-18 | by Jian | get Mini Electric Scooter → | tags: electric vehicles, china, critical minerals

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Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-05 | by Tim De Chant | get Battery → | tags: critical, critical minerals, growth

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What to know about the critical minerals trading bloc the U.S. wants to build with allies (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-05 | get Rare Earth Minerals → | tags: allies, china, critical

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The U.S. calls for trade bloc to counter China's leverage in critical minerals (cnbc.com)

2026-02-05 | by Dylan Butts | get Critical Minerals → | tags: critical, critical minerals, forge

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U.S. proposes critical minerals trade bloc aimed at countering China’s grip (cnbc.com)

2026-02-05 | by Dylan Butts | get Rare Earth → | tags: critical, critical minerals, forge

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Trump administration to unveil grand plan for countering China’s control on critical minerals (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-04 | get Rare Earth → | tags: billion, minerals, president

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Trump administration plans $12bn critical minerals stockpile to offset China supply risk — initiative to create 60-day reserve of rare earths for electronics manufacturing (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-02 | by Luke James | get Rare Earths → | tags: billion, critical, manufacturers

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U.S company Noveon Magnetics raises $215 million to expand homegrown rare earth magnet supply — $630 million spent in 2025 on American reshoring efforts to divest from Chinese reliance (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Jon Martindale | get Rare Earth Magnet → | tags: earth, industries, investment

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North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names (slashdot.org)

2026-01-05 | by Posted | get Critical minerals → | tags: coal, joke, legislative

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Trump secures deal with Korea Zinc to build rare earths processing facility in Tennessee — facility expected to have annual output of 540,000 tons of gallium, germanium, indium, and other resources (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Stephen Warwick | get Rare Earth Facility → | tags: earths, materials, minerals

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Turning the tide on China’s dominance of the rare earth market is possible. Here’s what it would take (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-09 | get Rare Earth Technology → | tags: earth, earth ceo, minerals

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China suspends some critical mineral export curbs to the U.S. as trade truce takes hold (cnbc.com)

2025-11-10 | by Dylan Butts | get Rare Earth → | tags: china, chinese, critical

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A new study warns deep-sea mining could disrupt the marine food web, impacting what we eat (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-06 | get Aquaculture → | tags: deep, deep sea, drilling