Hacker News with Generative AI: Minerals

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)