Great visit to the #Bleiberg mine last week. The largest Pb-zn (Ge) mine in Austria, consistently worked for 700 years until the 1980s! Really impressed and excited by the sizes of the waste rock dumps, and their potential to be a modern source of Ge. Neat to see medieval workings and the way that they worked the ore seams back then. (# 1 waste rock pile, # 2 underground ore face from a moder working, # 3 mined out ore seam in a medieval adit).
#criticalmetals #minewastemining #oregeology

Facing water stress: Chile’s lithium industry under scrutiny in Atacama Desert https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/facing-water-stress-chiles-lithium-industry-under-scrutiny-in-atacama-desert/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Chile #Chili #criticalmetals #criticalrawmaterials #lithium

Facing water stress: Chile’s lithium industry under scrutiny in Atacama Desert https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/facing-water-stress-chiles-lithium-industry-under-scrutiny-in-atacama-desert/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Chile #Chili #criticalmetals #criticalrawmaterials #lithium

#FunfactFriday
Did you know that if we extracted the Te from one Carlin type gold deposit as a byproduct, it would cover the entire US need and then some?!
The tellurium (and gold) in these deposits is all contained in our wonderful ore mineral of the year, PYRITE!!
#Carlin #CriticalMetals #Gold #Nevada #Pyrite #IMAOreMineraloftheYear
(photo is of the Goldstrike Open Pit Carlin type Gold Mine; image credit: USGS)

#IMA_OreMineralogy is pleased to announce that pyrite has been selected as the Ore Mineral of the year!!! I honor of pyrite we will be hosting a number of outreach events throughout the year, so stay tuned.
#pyrite #CriticalMetals #FoolsGold #goldinfoolsgood

#StandingStoneSunday
My contribution 😋 Piece of Co-bearing sphalerite (ZnS) from Namibia, cut out with a #FIB and placed standing upright. You are looking own a polished face with the dark line from top-left to bottom being a grain boundary with low Co and high Zn.
#criticalmetals #batterymetals #sphalerite #mining