Battery Metals Extraction
Discussions center on metals like cobalt, nickel, copper, iron, zinc, and heavy metals used in batteries, including their extraction, mining alternatives, recycling challenges, and potential contaminants like lead or cadmium.
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AFAIK e.g iron.html CF LLM phys.org IIUC larryniven.net google.com wikipedia.org metals metal earth iron crust nickel copper elements silver rare
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Too bad, you're getting a shitton of copper.
Iron and nickel mostly, not lead, AFAIK
Or just mine the zinc elsewhere?!
and gold and other heavy metals in trace ammounts
Curious where copper falls in this list.
How about "heavy elements,especially transition metals"
Does this work with lead and cadmium as well?
Perhaps they are expecting there to be a fair bit of iron along with the rare material, no?
Silver because of industrial uses?
Why aren't we recycling these minerals more?