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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
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Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#152Isn't rare earth metals mining insanely pollutive? I've heard they can be found all over the world but only China mines them massively because nobody else is willing to destroy their ecology.
One could argue that it's so cold in Sweden there isn't really an ecology there.
Yep, it's possible to argue completely incorrect things.
Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#153Isn't rare earth metals mining insanely pollutive? I've heard they can be found all over the world but only China mines them massively because nobody else is willing to destroy their ecology.
Mining generally pollutes in relation to the price. You can usually immobilize anything by conversion to sulfides and carbonates, but that may not be economical.
Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#154Very important to start mining these to get away from dependence on questionable activities in China and Kongo. We just have to hope that the "greens" don't stand in the way as they usually do.
I am ignorant on the topic, but strategical, wouldn’t it be better to wait until supply disruptions, while keeping the reserves accessible quickly.
Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#155Not exactly surprising that it’s in Sweden, as many rare earth metals were first discovered here and are named after Swedish things: - Scandium from Scandinavia - Yttrium, Terbium, Erbium and Ytterbium from the village of Ytterby - Holmium from Stockholm - Thulium from Thule
Quite impressive that little Sweden has found the second most elements in the world, 19 of them. https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/legac...
The Nova program 'Race to Zero'(I think) has a great overview on Bohr and his contemporaries to induce liquid phase of the lowest elements.
Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#156Very important to start mining these to get away from dependence on questionable activities in China and Kongo. We just have to hope that the "greens" don't stand in the way as they usually do.
> The Kiruna mine is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world. The mine is located in Kiruna in Norrbotten County, Lapland, Sweden
Sweden's possibly the country most serious about the environment, but money talks.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure that's based on your long experience setting up mining operations?
The area is already planned for mining and nobody lives there, it is right next to the largest iron ore mining operation in Europe. Wouldn't even need to move workers, since they already live next to it.
Yes, the problem with your reasoning is those are all things any non-expert could think of. That doesn't mean there aren't concerns that are more complicated than what some programmer on a forum can think of in 2 minutes.
Re: Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
#158Very important to start mining these to get away from dependence on questionable activities in China and Kongo. We just have to hope that the "greens" don't stand in the way as they usually do.
I am ignorant on the topic, but strategical, wouldn’t it be better to wait until supply disruptions, while keeping the reserves accessible quickly.
Its not something you spin up over night.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not, as many other niches, but 2 different links on the same topic, in a 5 minutes interval it's the kind of things that doesn't occurs that frequently, and it's usually for big news (either general world events or programming/tech world announcements). It could be a coincidence of course, but I find it suspicious nonetheless.
Swedes are fairly prevalent in technical forums. Can see the HN poll here, Sweden is at spot 6 if you exclude the US regions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378 So news about Sweden are probably more likely to be posted than for example news about Chile.
It's also currently 4pm there. Prime HN posting hours.