Hacker News with Generative AI: Minerals

Trump pushes for near-total control of Ukraine's minerals and energy (lbc.co.uk)
US President Donald Trump is trying to force through a new deal that would see America gain control Ukraine’s critical minerals and energy assets in a major expansion on his previous demands.
Trump wants Ukraine's minerals. But what is up for grabs? (mining.com)
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been thrown into the spotlight as US President Donald Trump looks to seize control of its resources in return for military support. Yet very little is actually known about what’s up for grabs.
Fluorescent Mineral Photography (naturesrainbows.com)
Fluorescent mineral photography is a challenge.
China's Critical Minerals Embargo Is Even Tougher Than Expected (nytimes.com)
Alarm is rising among multinational companies doing business with China about Beijing’s decision last week to order a trade embargo on the export of four critical minerals to the United States.
The bad news: the US is 100% reliant on imported gallium, primarily from China (twitter.com)
Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once (sciencealert.com)
There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world.
Iceland Spar (wikipedia.org)
Iceland spar, formerly called Iceland crystal (Icelandic: silfurberg [ˈsɪlvʏrˌpɛrk], lit. 'silver-rock') and also called optical calcite, is a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, originally brought from Iceland, and used in demonstrating the polarization of light.[1][2]
China Tightens Its Hold on Minerals Needed to Make Computer Chips (nytimes.com)
The vise-tight grip that China wields over the mining and refining of rare minerals, crucial ingredients of today’s most advanced technologies, is about to become even stronger.
US approves lithium project in push to break China's grip on EV minerals (ft.com)
Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages (phys.org)
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016) (atlasobscura.com)