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These mobile power systems could be a lifeline for remote, island and disaster-prone places.
Today, China controls the vast majority of rare earths processing. That gives it enormous political leverage, and its trade truce with the US involving those minerals expires Nov. 10, 2026.
This new open-access tool connects global extraction sites with the ten key metals inside smartphones.
The amount of undeclared uranium from the DRC’s cobalt mines could – if processed – produce enough material for 600-1,500 nuclear weapons.
Making sure big companies do their bit to reduce emissions is essential for Australia to meet its climate targets.
Storing hydrogen in metallic materials is a promising avenue for extracting value from Africa’s minerals.
With a half-billion-dollar loan, the US hopes to cut its reliance on Chinese supplies of scandium, a crucial mineral for aerospace. But China still has leverage.
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
Mining workers are among the highest paid workers in Australia. But this strike is about far more than pay.
The minerals needed for clean energy are driving widespread forest loss across Africa, much of it far beyond the mine itself and largely preventable.
Here’s what happens when a rock from space smashes into a goldfield.
The deep sea holds vast mineral wealth. However, most valuable elements lie in international waters, outside any one country’s territory.
Australia could direct revenue towards electrification, not further diesel consumption.
Australia has to ensure it can build and run these expensive projects without Chinese investors’ participation.
Diesel has become South Africa’s shadow infrastructure system by compensating for failures in electricity generation and freight rail.
Security measures alone are insufficient to resolve resource governance challenges in the DRC.
An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
America was once the global leader in rare earth element production, but as processing moved to China, the US lost capacity and expertise. It can get them back.
The rapid expansion of critical mineral extraction is trading away human and ecological well-being for technological breakthroughs. There are ways to fix this.
Top contributors
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University