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China Daily, October 9, 2020. Lau Kin Chi is coordinator of the Programme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. Jin Peiyun is a research officer at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. Yan Xiaohui is a research officer at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. Blue Sun over Beijing From March 14 to 27, 2021, a severe sandstorm that started in the Eastern Gobi Desert steppe swept across the Mongolian Plateau South, the Loess Plateau, the North China Plain, and the Korean Peninsula. Beijing and twelve provinces in China were hit by the worst sandstorm in a decade. In Beijing, on March 15, a blue sun appeared, as the red rays were absorbed by the sandstorm particles. In a 2015 sandstorm, PM10 (coarse atmospheric particulate matter) was at ....
Mainstream media and the large mining companies are finally catching on to what we at AOTH have been saying for the past two years: the copper market is heading for a severe supply shortage due to a perfect storm of under-exploration/ lack of discovery of new deposits, clashing with a huge increase in demand due to electrification and decarbonization. Dramatic price rise Copper is trading over $4.00 a pound this year on rapidly tightening physical markets, rebounding economic growth especially in China, the top metals consumer, and the expectation that the era of low inflation in key economies may soon be over. ....
Richard (Rick) Mills Ahead of the Herd As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Copper, the most critical metal [Note: all dollar amounts in USD] In 2018, before the trade war between the US and China put the boot into to copper demand, and covid-19 mine closures/abandoned expansion plans crimped supply, we made a bold prediction: that copper supply is NOT going to be able to keep up with demand in the long-term. Here’s what we wrote, in The Coming Copper Crunch: Even with expansions at existing mines and the ramp-up of the relatively few new copper mines like Cobre Panama, Radomiro Tomic and Toquepalain, it will not be enough to meet the onslaught of demand that is coming from China as it continues to modernize and urbanize, and electric vehicles, which use three times as much copper as regular ones. In 2016 Chinese automakers sold 28m cars. If China follows through on its promise to go 100% electric, th ....