Hacker News with Generative AI: Minerals

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.
China, Trade, Minerals, Geopolitics, International Relations
10 points by mitchbob 39 days ago | 2 comments
The bad news: the US is 100% reliant on imported gallium, primarily from China (twitter.com)
Supply Chain, China, United States, Minerals
10 points by dtquad 45 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Geology, Minerals, Science, Rare Earth
216 points by pseudolus 48 days ago | 97 comments
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]
Science, Geology, Minerals, Optics
29 points by Thevet 57 days ago | 4 comments
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.
China, Minerals, Technology, Economics, Supply Chain
6 points by mikhael 82 days ago | 0 comments
US approves lithium project in push to break China's grip on EV minerals (ft.com)
Lithium, China, Electric Vehicles, Minerals, Politics
5 points by JumpCrisscross 85 days ago | 0 comments
Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages (phys.org)
Artificial Intelligence, Minerals, Science, Environmental Science
10 points by PaulHoule 233 days ago | 1 comments
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
Archaeology, Minerals, Science, History
121 points by mmastrac 261 days ago | 74 comments