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Critical minerals and the energy transition
Energy Strategy ReviewsThe climate crisis requires a transition from a fossil-fuel energy system to renewable energy which is heavily reliant on the so-called critical minerals.
William Grace
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Hygroscopicity-driven spontaneous sustainable direct lithium extraction [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCurrent lithium extraction processes demand high inputs of energy, chemicals, and freshwater because they rely on non-spontaneous separation steps. To address these limitations, we introduce a spontaneous, hygroscopicity-driven direct lithium extraction ...
Hongxu Chen +6 more
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The role of justice in developing critical minerals [PDF]
The Extractive Industries and Society, 2020 Raphaël J Heffron
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Global Dynamics and Reflections on Critical Minerals [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Critical minerals refer to minerals that have an important strategic position in high-tech application and economic development such as national defense, military industry and emerging industry, but their resource security is at risk. In the context of a
Su Yina, Hu Dewen
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Critical minerals: rethinking extractivism?
Australian Geographer, 2022 Acceleration in funding and political support for critical minerals industry development is linked to securing resource supply chains essential to low carbon futures. This commentary reviews the Australian critical minerals agenda and scrutinises urgency claims engulfing the ‘rush’ to explore and extract critical minerals.
Mayes, Robyn +2 more
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The concept of critical minerals as a mean of stimulate the development of subsoil use in Ukraine
Мінеральні ресурси України, 2020 Developed countries use a list of critical minerals to identify and stimulate priority areas for the mineral resource base development. The article provides an overview and main features of the terms “critical minerals”, “critical elements”, “critical ...
N. V. Bariatska
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International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 2020 This study demonstrated using yttrium (Y) as an indicator to estimate the total rare earth element and Y contents (REY) in coal-associated samples and to facilitate selection of samples with high REY assays in a fast and inexpensive manner.
Xiaojing Yang +8 more
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Critical minerals for electric vehicles: a telecoupling review
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The rapid growth of electric vehicles adoption, which plays a crucial role to reduce transportation carbon emissions, is leading to a surge in demand for critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, and rare earths.
Datu Buyung Agusdinata +2 more
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Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2022 Since the middle of 2010s, international community (developed economies primarily) has been paying increasing attention to the reduction of carbon footprint in the environment by means of large-scale deployment of renewable energy, electrification of ...
N. А. Biryukova
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Critical minerals: international approaches implementation in Ukraine
Мінеральні ресурси УкраїниThe article discusses the definition of critical minerals (critical raw materials) and the main applications areas, including digital technologies, renewable energy and the defence industry.
N. V. Bariatska
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