Deep-Earth diamonds reveal trove of never-before-seen minerals
To say that the Trinity test changed the world would not be a hyperbole - it was the daybreak of the nuclear age. But it also changed it in small ways, like making new minerals and clathrates as a new set of conditions showed up for the first time on Earth.
Distilled water makes flat coffee. Minerals in water actually help extract flavor compounds from coffee. You want some mineral content—around 150 ppm total dissolved solids is ideal. Did you know minerals = flavor?
𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗮 💧 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂!
Blistered Sulphuret of Copper (*Cuprum sulphureum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.
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"China🚨spent the last decades investing heavily in the mining sector… the West was happily letting them do the dirty work.
Now that CN controls up to 90% of that space, the West🚨waking up to the fact that mining & critical #minerals: actually needed.
AI, missiles, EVs… CMs are in all of them.
Once it became clear:🚨access to these minerals can & will be weaponized, the US & other Ns have been busy “fixing it” by building alt supply chains & stockpil..."
-L Ekwueme
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