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Whack-a-mole! Or, What’s in a Material Anyway?
Updates and an essay on discovering geography and labor in battery development
Aug 21, 2025
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Ian Morse
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El Salvador ban, Nigerian lithium, Industry self-regulation | News Round-up #54
Also Trump fumbling, deep-sea mining wins and losses, Indonesia's nickel glut, and Nambia encountering the resolve of foreign firms.
Feb 6, 2025
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Ian Morse
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The Mining Hop | Book(s) Review
Review of The War Below and Power Metal, two 2024 books that grapple with mining for climate action
Jan 8, 2025
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Ian Morse
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Phosphate is as much 'climate mineral' as lithium
Feb 9, 2023
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Ian Morse
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The Mining Hop | Book(s) Review
Jan 8, 2025
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Ian Morse
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El Salvador ban, Nigerian lithium, Industry self-regulation | News Round-up #54
Feb 6, 2025
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Ian Morse
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Cobalt miners call out 'neocolonialism' as firms avoid accountability
Jan 13, 2022
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Ian Morse
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The journey to responsibly mined lithium
Sep 7, 2023
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Ian Morse
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Batteries that concern the US | News Round-up #50
Feb 1, 2024
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Ian Morse
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Universalism and Sacrifice | News Round-up #53
And some news about the newsletter.
May 9, 2024
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Ian Morse
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Fear-mongering in the Cobalt-sphere? | News Round-up #52
In Peru, expansions and an order to pay medical care. In the US, tech companies aren't liable and a copper land swap upheld. In Brazil, regulators ask…
Mar 28, 2024
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Ian Morse
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Nickel anxieties & Battery frontiers | News Round-up #51
African leaders urge equitable extraction. Volkswagen allegedly involved with forced labor. London Metal Exchange trades 'criminal property'?
Feb 29, 2024
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Ian Morse
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Batteries that concern the US | News Round-up #50
The US releases guidance on sourcing EV batteries. Battery metal prices take a dive. Scores of deaths at mine sites. Researchers urge greater…
Feb 1, 2024
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Ian Morse
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Podcast: Pitfall author Chris Pollon on the need to mine
On the first Green Rocks podcast, I speak with Chris Pollon, author of Pitfall, on material demand, climate justice, and what the mine of the future…
Nov 16, 2023
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Ian Morse
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Gra-fight! | Climate and mining news round-up #49
China and US wield exports as weapons in a graphite fight. Chinese companies linked to violence at overseas projects. Western companies chasing after…
Oct 26, 2023
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Ian Morse
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Climate goes Metal | News Round-up #48
What is Saudi Arabia doing? Plus monk activism, zinc batteries, and how copper can ease a shortfall.
Sep 14, 2023
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Ian Morse
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