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10 Oct 2022
Why are minerals, one of the classic elements of nature so key to human existence, missing from the SDGs? Today Julia Keenan, Degol Hailu and I publish an article in @naturesustainab (free access: rdcu.be/cXglF) that attempts to answer this question.
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30 Jan 2023
'Development Minerals' feature in Jamaica's new 5-year development plan. caribbeannationalweekly.com/…
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26 Jan 2023
Mate, you do know you can charge a battery more than once...
24 Jan 2023
Wrap your head around this: Storing the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil, which weighs 300 pounds and costs $81.00 requires 20,000 pounds of EV batteries that cost $200,000. Now imagine how much mining we have to do in order make 20,000 pounds of battery. #GreenEnergy
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26 Jan 2023
Another dodgy take. All these metals were mined before green energy and continue to be mined for other things, and they nowhere near add up to 98% of mined metals #factcheck
26 Jan 2023
Some people seem to think it's just rare earth minerals that are needed to make #GreenEnery You also need copper, iron, aluminium, zinc, lead and nickel, and together that accounts for 98% of all mined metals.
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26 Jan 2023
Yeah, nah. This is a dodgy take. Most cobalt is produced as a by-product of copper mining & cobalt is the only one of the metals you have listed that has any significant artisanal mining as part of the supply chain. #factcheck
24 Jan 2023
It takes 112 children working a 12 hour day to make enough cobalt for one EV battery. #GreenEnergy
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16 Jan 2023
Metals mined for renewable energy will dramatically increase mining wastes. Miners could reduce this waste. If they really wanted to. 🧵
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16 Jan 2023
Most of mining's waste (>90%) is actually benign crushed rock, the problem is that after processing toxic metals and acids are left mixed in with the benign waste. It could be separated and used as a construction material when markets are nearby, but only a few companies do this.
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16 Jan 2023
@MorrillJB @UNEPIRP @GlobalDevUQ @sally_innis @fittwittar @actmatthews @anna_littleboy @LNiGhallachoir @jdgeipel @helenmariareid @Patrick45228997 @KamilaSvobodov7
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Daniel Franks retweeted
16 Jan 2023
I've worked nearly 30 years on mining & sustainability. Yes, metal demand for renewables will present huge challenges. But what this thread is not telling you is that there are many solutions to reduce mining waste, what's lacking is any real interest in implementing them.
16 Jan 2023
Metals mined for renewable energy will dramatically increase mining wastes. Miners could reduce this waste. If they really wanted to. 🧵
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30 Nov 2022
"Not only will Fiji be able to provide cheaper cement, but it’ll be low-emission cement, so Fiji will be supporting its neighbours in mitigating climate change. ”Check out this new feature by Nature on our Blue Concrete Initiative
28 Nov 2022
Quarrying sand in Fiji is less environmentally-damaging than extracting it from river beds. #AdFeature with @SMI_UQ
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Daniel Franks retweeted
25 Nov 2022
BREAKING: Youth Verdict and The Bimblebox Alliance have won their historic legal challenge to Clive Palmer’s proposed Galilee Coal Project. More to come...
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Daniel Franks retweeted
11 Nov 2022
Fiji’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency @sprasadfj, announced the launch of the Blue Concrete Initiative at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion at COP 27 today (11/11/22).
Read more: bit.ly/FIJITAKESCONCRETESTEP…
#FijiNews #Fiji
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1 Nov 2022
cognitive dissonance {noun}
When a company that operates the largest gold mine in the world dumps its tailings waste in the river yet claims to be a global leader in tailings waste management
mailchi.mp/tailingsandminewa…
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Daniel Franks retweeted
20 Oct 2022
I've been reflecting on divergent critical mineral definitions for a while now...Global collective discussions on mineral scarcity issues are necessary with the projected 2040 demands. For these discussions, there must be unified understanding and definition of what is critical.
10 Oct 2022
Why are minerals, one of the classic elements of nature so key to human existence, missing from the SDGs? Today Julia Keenan, Degol Hailu and I publish an article in @naturesustainab (free access: rdcu.be/cXglF) that attempts to answer this question.
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10 Oct 2022
Why are minerals, one of the classic elements of nature so key to human existence, missing from the SDGs? Today Julia Keenan, Degol Hailu and I publish an article in @naturesustainab (free access: rdcu.be/cXglF) that attempts to answer this question.
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Daniel Franks retweeted
26 Sep 2022
(1/4) I am very pleased to share the second journal publication of my #PhD thesis!
The paper is open access through @Resources_MDPI here:
lnkd.in/gfcnPBJZ
We present a novel method to model many potential tailings dam breaches, consecutively.
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