Hacker News with Generative AI: Minerals

China suspended exports of rare earth minerals (nytimes.com)
China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
China, Trade, Rare Earths, Minerals, Geopolitics
32 points by d33 11 days ago | 5 comments
China just turned off us supplies of minerals critical for defense and cleantech (cleantechnica.com)
In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain and yanked out a handful of critical bolts.
China, Supply Chain, Minerals, Cleantech, Defense
65 points by semanticist 20 days ago | 27 comments
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.
Politics, Ukraine, International Relations, Energy, Minerals
7 points by croes 29 days ago | 3 comments
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.
Politics, Ukraine, Minerals, Resources, International Relations
9 points by moogly 63 days ago | 1 comments
Fluorescent Mineral Photography (naturesrainbows.com)
Fluorescent mineral photography is a challenge.
Photography, Minerals, Science
37 points by jazzyjackson 93 days ago | 6 comments
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 137 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 143 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 146 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 155 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 179 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 183 days ago | 0 comments
Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages (phys.org)
Artificial Intelligence, Minerals, Science, Environmental Science
10 points by PaulHoule 331 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 359 days ago | 74 comments