5 Unknown Minerals

If you are not a mining expert chances are that you see these minerals for the first time. Their naming is also quite peculiar.

Minerals Used in High Tech Industry

From Tungsten to Strontium, here’s a list of five minerals that shaped tech industry and modern life and are largely defining our lifestyle.

Seabed Mining

Drills are ready to bore the ocean floor and take out the buried treasure “waiting” there for the mining giants to come. No guess that the money is big and there’s a bunch of private and national ventures that have their eyes on slicing the pie. At the same time, there are voices warning about the detrimental consequences of breaking in the ocean rarefied. The question is “does it worth the price?”

Mapping African Mineral Wealth

You will be amazed by the abundance in natural resources this continent holds. However, Africa still falls behind in human development. Guess why that.

Rare Earth Metals industry

They sound valuable due to scarcity but that’s not truth. Rare metals are feeding the high-tech blossom. Now it’s obvious how the story goes…