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#minéraux #minerals #macrophotography
Vanadinite sur barytine.

#macro #macrophotography #minéraux #minerals
Deep-Earth diamonds reveal trove of never-before-seen minerals

Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior

Scientific American

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.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2604165123

#Minerals #Nukes

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!

#coffee #minerals #extraction

Blistered Sulphuret of Copper (*Cuprum sulphureum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

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#fauna #minerals #marine #geology #rocks #mineralogy #art #publicdomain

Vengo del #extractivismo. Nací en una concesión minera de sal en medio de una península al noroeste de México. Mi pasado se remonta aún más atrás cuando un tal Emiliano Ybarra encontró oro en el desierto. #WindowFriday #photography #historia #mexico #minerals #literatura #cronica #ViernesDeEscritorio #viernesdeventana
Japan's government is developing methods to mine critical minerals, including rare earths, from the seabed around Minamitorishima, a remote Japanese island, eyeing domestic rare earth production for economic security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/07/economy/japan-rare-earth-production/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #rareearths #minerals #chinajapanrelations #minamitorishima
Japan tackles challenges of seafloor rare earth mining, eyeing economic security

In February, Japan succeeded in a test collection of rare earth-bearing mud from a depth of 6,000 meters below sea level near the remote Japanese island of Minamitorishima.

The Japan Times

"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
#Incompetence #Economy #USPol