Meanwhile in Germany, Aurubis (Europe's largest #copper producer) has found 'massive' shortfalls in stock (against its records) leading the firm to suspect it has been subject to a major theft.

The #metals sector is increasingly looking like it needs to keep a better eye on its assets; you'll recall a few months ago, supposed bags of nickel were found on inspection to contain stones (a fraud perpetrated on Trafigura).

This makes stealing copper wire from railways look like hobby-criminality!

1804: William Hyde Wollaston and Smithson Tennant discovered 4 of the missing 5 platinum group metals: rhodium, palladium, iridium, and osmium. #Poetry #Science #History #Metals #Chemistry #PlatinumGroup #Wollaston #Tennant (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1804.html)

#Metals 1.0.1 with #Mill BSP is still doing way too much on the Mill repo just to get a reasonable #Scala editing experience. Maybe, our repo is a bit uncommon, as all integration tests and examples end up in separate executable sub-modules, and in some cases (integration tests) lots of modules need to be locally published, but that should not be necessary just to edit the sources. Investigating...

Some more work! #metals ✨️

Among the #green #metals, #copper has the widest range of end markets, including EVs, wind and #solarpower and #energy storage.

#China ’s overseas investment in #metals and #mining set to hit record. #Beijing intensifies efforts to lock up access to #renewable #energy #SupplyChain -chart @FT https://tinyurl.com/4yyar9rv

In 2019, humans extracted more stuff from the ground than in all of mankind’s history up to 1950. And put back more of it than ever in a more permanent, more harmful form. Congrats everyone!

#earth #metals #minerals #naturalresources #mining #extraction #waste #humans

Revolutionary #Discovery: Self-Healing #Metals Are No Longer #Science Fiction https://www.universal-sci.com/article/self-healing-metals-are-no-longer-science-fiction

#Scientists observe #metals healing their own fractures, making Robert Patrick’s T-1000 #Terminator one step closer to reality
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/scientists-observe-metal-repairing-itself-for-the-first-time-could-terminator-robots-be-on-the-horizon

Solving for #energy scarcity, however, creates another scarcity problem: materials scarcity. Demand for certain #metals, such as #lithium, #copper and #silicon, will soar as the #energy mix is transformed, chart @JPMorganAM

The Department of Energy in the US have launched the Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize which aims to help recycle elements in turbines that might otherwise be lost.

#GoodNews #America #Recycling #Energy #Wind #Turbine #Materials #Composite #carbon #Metals #Competition

https://www.cdrecycler.com/news/wind-turbine-recycling-contest-department-energy/

We praise the wisdom of Volkswagen,
For watching the markets keen
China's export curbs
Have caused some concerns
But VW's staying prepared and serene.

We thank the chipmakers too,
Though their supplies may soon be few
For seeing the light
And not causing a fright
Where others would a panic brew.

#vw #china #metals #chips #ev #ode #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/business/vw-ready-deal-with-china-metal-curbs-if-needed-chipmakers-play-down-fallout-2023-07-06/

#China imposed restrictions on exporting 2 #metals that are crucial to parts of #semiconductor, telecoms and #EV industries in an escalation of the country’s tit-for-tat trade war on #technology with US and Europe, chart @BloombergTV bit.ly/3XBe0CI

A new study from Lauren Zink and colleagues finds that #microplastics do not cross a fish's gut membrane, but can carry other contaminants, like cadmium, that do.

#ecotoxicology #AquaticToxicology #metals #cadmium #fish

"In vitro characterization of cadmium transport across the gastro-intestinal membrane of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) in the presence and absence of microplastics"

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hIXx4wOUn-reQ

Thinking about your recent conversations with Simon Michaux @Eceni, it strikes me that an enormous proportion - 90%? - of all the #metals that ever can be mined must already have been mined. Next time you talk to him, could you ask him for his estimate of this proportion?

https://accidentalgods.life/our-podcast/

#ElectricVehicles drive #metals demand, chart @BloombergTV

Next week we are at @scaladays with our booth where Scala meets the industry. Let's chat about the great things that are coming!
https://calendly.com/scala-space/scala-chat?month=2023-06&date=2023-06-05
#Scala #tooling #OSS #ScalaEcosystem #ScalaCLI #metals

4,000 Meters Below The Sea Lies The Planet's Largest Source Of #Battery #Metals
#Mining always comes at a cost, but could the sea offer less damaging potential than land?

https://www.iflscience.com/4000-meters-below-the-sea-lies-the-planets-largest-source-of-battery-metals-69036

New paper from Lauren Zink and colleagues:

Effects of Exposure to Cadmium, Microplastics, and Their Mixture on Survival, Growth, Feeding, and Life History of Daphnia magna

#cadmium #ecotoxicology #metals #microplastics #mixtures #pollution

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.5628

Aluminium: the overlooked component of the Critical Raw Materials Act? [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/aluminium-the-overlooked-component-of-the-critical-raw-materials-act/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #aluminium #CriticalRawMaterialsAct #Economy #europeansupply #Metals