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RENO, NV, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire – Itronics Inc. (OTC: ITRO) a “Cleantech Materials” growth Company that manufacture...
Each year, we use nearly 50 billion tons of sand and gravel worldwide. Is that sustainable?
Vince Beiser. Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization. The book has been translated into five languages, was a finalist for a 2019 PEN America award and a California Book Award, and spawned a TEDx talk. Vince is currently at work on a new book, Power Metal, about the trillion-dollar global scramble for the rare metals we need to transition to a world run on renewable energy — and the human and environmental damage that may come with it. Beiser has exposed conditions in California’s harshest prison...
About 30 miles from Charlotte, Piedmont Lithium is seeking to open a lithium mine. But some nearby landowners aren't so keen on the project. We sit down with an area resident as well as two energy reporters and analysts.
BBC News By Bernd Debusmann Jr image captionSand is often extracted from rivers for use in construction Does the world have a shortage of sand? At first, that might sound like a peculiar question. After all, sand covers vast expanses of beaches and deserts across the world. Yet the raw material is used in giant quantities in construction and manufacturing. In the building sector alone, 40-50bn tonnes of the stuff is used around the world annually. This is led by the production of concrete, which is typically made up of about 25% sand. The problem when it comes to supply is that most desert or...