The irony of the matter is that rare earths are not rare. If you accept the associated environmental pollution, it's all possible here. Apart from the know-how to process the stuff ... so I'm actually relatively relaxed about it. The real battle will eventually be fought over (drinking/ground) water and sand (as stupid as it sounds) ... I'm more worried about that.
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@Helli The second problem, apart from the environment, is that extraction and, above all, further processing are very complex and expensive and therefore it is not feasible to extract it here at the current prices. This is why there will be fixed purchase agreements with higher prices, as is already the case at $MP.
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•@Multibagger absolutely correct :-)
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@Helli Why sand?
For building materials or what do you mean?
For building materials or what do you mean?
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@Staatsmann exactly that. Simply put, most sand cannot be used for this purpose. For example, desert sand is absolutely unsuitable, as the sand grain is rounded and the countries located there have to import construction sand. There are some exciting documentaries/reports on YouTube about this. Keyword: sand crisis. The whole thing makes sand an extremely important raw material, which will probably affect us in the future...
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•@Helli Very interesting. Something I didn't have on my radar at all!
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@Helli The cosmetics industry in turn relies on desert sand, as it is particularly fine for powders etc. There are also documentaries about it, very interesting.
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•@Energievermittler okay, I didn't know that yet. Thank you :D !
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@Helli Sand (but as you rightly mentioned, not desert sand) is mainly needed for concrete and is stolen from riverbeds in many countries. This causes a lot of damage and seems to be a very lucrative business for criminal organizations such as the mafia.
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