China has emerged a new problem with its rare earths: smuggling

China is deploying police, customs agents and even spies to stop the smuggling of its increasingly precious Rare earthcritical minerals on which it maintains an official embargo. Why is it important. The Asian giant The world production of these materials is obsessively controllingessential for the car, technological and military industry. Its new anti -policy campaign … Read more

China’s absolute dominance over rare earths is the result of a strategy that no one else has. Not even the US

The Rare earth They have a leading role in the commercial, technological and geostrategic war that the US and China support. These chemical elements are relatively scarce, and, in addition, they are not usually found purely in nature, but what makes them so special are Its physicochemical properties. In fact, thanks to them they have … Read more

Without the rare earths of China, lasers will end in Europe. Germany has found a way to do without them

The applications of Rare earths They are potentially unlimited. To this peculiar group of chemical elements belong some metals as elusive and with names as suggestive as neodymium, promised, gadolinium, ititrium or scandio, among others. Some of them They are relatively scarceand, in addition, they are not usually found purely in nature, but what makes … Read more

The earth’s core has a “escape.” And it’s gold

Our planet hides, thousands of kilometers under our feet, a mainly composed nucleus ironwith an important nickel concentration, and also with other intermingled elements. And among these latest elements, there is gold. Gold leak. Gold that, according to a recent study, It is leaked towards upper layers, in the direction of the surface and through … Read more

In full obsession with rare earths, a fairly common metal has jeopardized the green transition: Copper foul

The latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on minerals has confirmed which He had been discussed for a long time: Today, the absolute leader is China. It is no novelty, but among all minerals there is one that runs a particular danger, and not precisely because of geopolitical control, but for the real … Read more

NASA has revealed why no astronaut has left the Earth’s atmosphere. Not even when they went to the moon

From time to time, NASA reminds us with some anecdote or study that things are never how they seem or, failing that, that can always be questionable or have more than one answer. Recently they gave us such a simple explanation about our inability to find extraterrestrial signs that scared. They also clarified why We … Read more

Humanity has been using the Earth’s magnetic field as a navigation guide. Some researchers want to retire it

In recent decades, GPS has become part of our day to day. If it is a military technology, the global positioning system has been guided by roads, forests and seas, in the city and in the mountain, but always with an important limitation, access to satellites that place our navigation devices. That could change. Magnav. … Read more

The United States imagined that China would veto its export of rare earths. Has a plan B: The Pacific Fund

In the midst of the tariff war that has ended up becoming a bilateral front between the United States and China, the Asian giant He has responded blocking rare earth export. The White House seems to be seen coming and has played with one of its last buzas. The forecast. The Trump administration has written … Read more

Europe will invest a lot of money in countries as far away as Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. The reason: rare earths

Surely it went unnoticed by the vast majority of the planet Between tariffs and war conflicts. Kazakhstan announced last week the discovery of his Greater rare earth sitewith an initial estimate of one million tons of key elements such as Cerio, Lantano, Neodimio and Ititrio, all fundamental for the global energy transition … or to … Read more

China has responded to US tariffs attacking one of its weak points: rare earths

As expected, the Chinese government has not been left with a crossed arms before The tariffs prepared by the USA. Just 24 hours after Donald Trump releases the taxes to be applied to The importation of most products Coming from abroad, the administration led by Xi Jinping has responded. And he has done it with … Read more

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