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#CriticalMinerals

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Ben Parrish

And that's a wrap on the field season for my tungsten-molybdenum reconnaissance project! We're investigating and sampling historical tungsten and molybdenum producers and prospects in the Mojave as part of a federal and state funded critical minerals initiative (USGS EarthMRI). Part of this work will be investigating age of mineralization of these types of systems with an eye for Cenozoic magmatism. Lots of beautiful skarn mineralization and pretty garnet and epidote in abundance.

This project is in conjunction with similar work being done by the Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas geological surveys.

More to come!

Follow me on most social platforms under @ben_itoite or @benitoite for more.

#geology#californiageology#criticalminerals
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CelloMom On Cars

Africa doesn’t need aid. It needs control over its #CriticalMinerals

"It’s time for #Africa to transform from the world’s raw materials store into its manufacturing powerhouse. By turning our mineral wealth into lasting prosperity, we can make foreign aid what it should have been all along: unnecessary."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/

Al Jazeera · Africa doesn’t need aid. It needs control over its critical mineralsBy Maxwell Gomera
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Bohemian Peasant

@JoshuaHolland

“You want high-efficiency motors in your EVs and offshore wind turbines? You want night-vision goggles, sonar systems, or magnetostrictive actuators? You’re going to need terbium. Like dysprosium, terbium comes almost exclusively from Chinese soil, processed in Chinese facilities, and licensed by Chinese bureaucrats with a nuanced appreciation for geopolitical leverage. There’s no viable substitute … “

#tradewar#china#criticalminerals
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Bohemian Peasant

@JoshuaHolland

“No dysprosium, no thermal stability. No thermal stability, no functioning motor in your F-35 or your Mustang Mach-E. China controls essentially the entire supply of dysprosium, and no, there is no magical mine in Wyoming or Quebec waiting in the wings. If dysprosium doesn’t come out of China, it doesn’t come out at all. It’s the spinal cord of electrification, and right now China’s holding the vertebrae.”

#tariffs#idiocracy#criticalminerals
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