#nickel mining

[odinsblog]

Tesla, plus French and German companies, all linked to massive nickel mining plans

A unique uncontacted tribe could be wiped out by a massive Indonesian project to produce nickel for electric car batteries.

A vast mining scheme on the island of Halmahera is part of Indonesia’s plan to become a major producer of electric car batteries – a plan into which Tesla and other companies are pouring billions of dollars.

But nickel mining is set to destroy vast areas of the forested interior of Halmahera. These forests are inhabited by 300-500 uncontacted members of the Hongana Manyawa tribe. If mining goes ahead as planned, they will not survive the destruction.

The Hongana Manyawa – which means ‘People of the Forest’ in their own language - are one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes in Indonesia.

They now face the threat of seeing their land, and everything they need to survive, destroyed by corporations rushing to provide a supposedly ‘sustainable’ lifestyle to people thousands of miles away.

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[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Hiding a thousand feet below the earth’s surface in this patch of northern Minnesota wetlands are ancient mineral deposits that some view as critical to fueling America’s clean energy future. A company called Talon Metals is drilling here around the clock, extracting samples of rock rich with nickel in a bid to become the country’s sole source of a material used to power zero-emission vehicles. But some locals are fighting the mine, for fear it could pollute their environment. The pushback hints at how difficult it may be to build an all-American supply chain that powers the country’s transition to electric vehicles.

The company is proposing to build an underground mine near Tamarack that would produce nickel, a highly sought-after mineral that is used to power electric vehicles. It would be a profitable venture for Talon, which has a contract to supply nickel for Tesla’s car batteries, and a step forward in the country’s race to develop domestic supply chains to feed the growing demand for electric vehicles.

But mines that extract metal from sulfide ore, as this one would, have a poor environmental record in the United States, and an even more checkered footprint globally. While some in the area argue the mine could bring good jobs to a sparsely populated region, others are deeply fearful that it could spoil local lakes and streams that feed into the Mississippi River. There is also concern that it could endanger the livelihoods and culture of Ojibwe tribes whose members live just over a mile from Talon’s land and have gathered wild rice here for generations.

Talon says it will invest heavily to design the world’s greenest and most responsible mine yet, one that they say “Joe Biden can love.” But some people in the community remain skeptical, including about the company’s promises to respect Indigenous rights, like the tribes’ authority over lands where their members hunt and gather food. Part of that mistrust stems from the fact that Talon’s minority partner, Rio Tinto, provoked outrage in 2020 by blowing up a 46,000-year-old system of Aboriginal caves in Australia in a search for iron ore.

[wolfythewitch]

How does this keep happening to me

[thatrandomblogsays]

Percy: *sacrifices himself to save his friends*

Grover & Annabeth: having PTSD flashbacks

[reportstore]

No sacrifices: inside nickel mining in the Philippines

The Philippines could turn into a huge player in the global nickel mining industry after a ban on new mining was lifted the year before.

In February 2017, Gina Lopez, the Philllipines' then climate secretary and a long-lasting green lobbyist, requested 23 of the country's 41 mines to close for all time and one more five to suspend tasks endlessly for supposed natural infringement. That choice was upset by President Rodrigo Duterte last December, and the new government drove by president-elect 'Bongbong' Marcos - who accepts office on 30 June - is probably going to go on with the course adjustment.

The public authority's choice is supported by the information that nickel is the main metal by mass in the lithium-particle batteries used to power electric vehicles and is set to assume an imperative part in the global environmentally friendly power energy progress. In 2020, Tesla President Elon Musk requested that mining organizations, "kindly mine all the more endlessly nickel costs have bounced by over 35% between 1 January and 20 May this year.

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The Philippine Government might want to significantly increase the size of the nation's mining area by 2027, and nickel will frame a foundation of any such resurgence. However ecological worries remain, and the difficulties of exchanging an undeniably globalized area, imply that any confidence for the fate of nickel in the Philippines should be tempered.

Getting the ball really rolling The majority of the mines that were shut under the boycott created nickel and were liable for a high extent of the country's yearly nickel creation, which crested at 418,292 tons in 2015 preceding dropping to 339,377 tons in 2017 and 351,127 tons in 2021, as per GlobalData. It conjectures result will arrive at 361,305 tons this year and 382,610 tons by 2025, driving a build yearly development pace of 2.2% until 2025.

The Mines and Geosciences Agency (MGB), part of the Philippines' Branch of Climate and Normal Assets, noticed that the nation could have upwards of 190 new mining projects during the following four years and up to 40% will be open-pit mines. Nickel - which comes from laterite stores in the nation - will represent 33% of the new mines and make up the greater part of the new open-pit mining.

The MGB said in Spring that regarding 12 new metallic mines - for the most part nickel projects - would start business tasks this year.

"The ban on new mining arrangements, not only for nickel, was switched last year to help pandemic recuperation, as it is normal to infuse more duty income and give more positions in the remote of the nation," says Mitzi Sumangil, partner ware expert, metals and mining research at S&P Global Product Experiences.

High possible creation

"The capability of the mining area to help the financial recuperation is extremely high," says Wilfredo Monacano, the overseer of the MGB, whose organization has drawn up plans for the eventual fate of the nation's mining area as the Philippines Minerals Industry Guide.

"Under stage one [of the roadmap] we proposed strategies that would settle the business climate and they are now set up," Moncano proceeds. "Under stage two - which we are right now under - we have distinguished need mining projects for various wares, including nickel, gold and copper. The arrangement is to grow the creation limit of existing mines and to open up new mines."

The Philippines is the fifth-most mineralised country on the planet with an expected $1tn in undiscovered stores of copper, gold, nickel, zinc and silver. Under its public constitution, the state possesses all normal assets including minerals, and the investigation, improvement and utilization of mineral assets are under the full control and oversight of the state.

As per the US Land Review, the Philippines brags the fifth-biggest stores nickel on the planet, and as per S&P Global, it represented a fourth of Asian mined nickel creation in 2021.

Moncano said the nation has three high end mining projects - all situated on Mindanao island - which would begin advancement soon: the Silangan copper and gold venture, the Tampakan gold copper office and the Lord ruler copper and gold undertaking.

Past these bigger undertakings, a sum of 190 arranged new ventures would get the general number of laborers the metallic and non-metallic mining area up to upwards of 600,000 by 2027 from around 215,000 today. At present, the enormous scope mining area contributes around 0.7% to Gross domestic product yet, on the off chance that every one of the new ventures work out as expected, that could ascend to as much as 5% by 2027.

A sought after mineral

The Philippines' re-visitation of nickel mining comes all at once where interest for the metal has never been higher. As indicated by research firm Wood Mackenzie, nickel utilization for EV batteries is projected to jump 64% somewhere in the range of 2019 and 2025. Indonesia's most memorable plant to handle nickel for use in batteries was authorized in May 2021, with something like seven additional tasks ready to go.

"We see since the Philippines has been delivering nickel metal straightforwardly to China and Japan however, as the controller, we are connecting with the public congress since we need to 'esteem add' to our mineral minerals that are being separated," says Moncano. "During the approaching organization, we would recommend that congress passes a regulation to order the steady limitation on the immediate delivery of the metal, so homegrown handling can be laid out in the nation and add esteem specifically to nickel.

"We need to expand the quantity of nickel handling plants in the nation yet we need the help of congress on this," Moncano proceeds. "We trust that mineral organizations that are significant and have colossal stores here will set up their own mineral handling plants in the country."

The Philippines has been China's greatest provider of nickel mineral and concentrate since Indonesia presented its boycott. It will be difficult for the country to drop fundamentally down the nickel store network, as the creation of nickel-rich cathodes in lithium-particle batteries requires a severe, high-virtue class I nickel as feedstock to deliver the key fixing, nickel sulfate. Customary treated steel feed of nickel pig iron (NPI) and laterite metals have not been reasonable for the creation of these batteries.

Looking west

Moncano says it is conceivable that the Philippines will supply a more noteworthy volume of nickel to Western organizations later on, and such global arrangements are rapidly turning into a need of the cutting edge mining industry.

"It's a business choice with respect to the singular mining organizations [in the Philippines] yet the closest and greatest customer of this nickel metal is China," Moncano says. "There would be extra expenses to move it to Europe for handling, say [but]e don't put it down."

In any case, challenges stay for the Philippine mining industry, presently troubled by rising fuel costs, higher expansion, a manpower lack, store network disturbance and possibly rising cargo charges.

"While a few regulative obstacles have been taken out, the nation's mining industry actually has quite far to go," says Sumangil. "Stable government strategies, solid monetary plans, and straightforwardness can get venture, yet there is likewise a need to guarantee and demonstrate that the extractive mineral industry will shield the climate and its straightforwardly influenced networks."

A solid business case can be made for the Philippines to lay out new open-pit nickel mines, in the midst of such high global nickel costs. Large number of occupations will be created. Nonetheless, it is exceptionally impossible that new mines can be opened up without causing critical ecological harm.

[alwaysbewoke]

[my-name-is-apollo]

The similarities between Apollo - Hermes and Apollo - Heracles friendship is honestly kind of delightful:

- Steal something from him: Hermes stole the cattle; Heracles stole the tripod (well, tried to)

- Indulge in his favourite activity to build friendship: Hermes played music; Heracles built a city with Apollo

- Get their titles and some gifts from him: Hermes was appointed as the messenger of gods and given his rod; Alcides was renamed Heracles and was gifted a bow

- Try to get a share in his oracles but fail to do so: Hermes asked Apollo to share the secrets of his divination; Heracles tried to create his own oracle using Apollo's tripod

- Share a celestial object with him: the planet Mercury was called as Apollo in the daytime; the constellation Gemini were believed to be Apollo and Heracles.

All of this can't be a coincidence. Hermes must have shared his notes with Heracles.

[shiro-s2e2-erukinzu]

Anime only watchers and people who aren't caught up with the Manga, BEWARE... Cuz I'm about to discuss Spy X Family Mission 94... You have been warned...! 👌

[SPOILERS AHEAD FROM THIS POINT ON]

This was an absolutely delightful little chapter!! AND I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT...!! 👌😆

Today's chapter did one of my most favorite genres in fiction in the MOST Spy × Family way possible...!! 👏😌 So let's talk about it, shall we? 👌😎

This chapter begins with Anya and Bond watching an episode of Bondman, where he is skiing away from the bad guys and Anya asks her papa Loid if they could swoosh too...!! 😆 Loid basically tells Anya no, but then she starts to get really upset, so...:

ANYA GOT WHAT SHE WANTED!! 👏😆 (Loid is such a softie for his girls...!🤭)

Then, the Forger family partake in some skiing shenanigans...!! 🤭

Poor Yor...!! 🤣 Plus, I also love seeing the WISE logo on Loid's sleeve and skis...!! 😖 It always makes me laugh whenever I find them on Twilight or on his stuff!!! 😆

After some more skiing (and even some sledding), a blizzard comes swooshing in...(Sidenote: Twilight and Yor look SUPER CUTE in the picture below!! 👇😆)

BUT NO ONE CAN LEAVE!! 😱

And when that happened, 2 thoughts went through my mind...: One, The Forgers were gonna run into the Desmonds at the ski lodge now that every member of the Desmonds have been introduced; or two, We were gonna partake in...

...A good old fashioned Murder Mystery...!!! 🕵

Now, I wasn't sure yet which of my thoughts were gonna come into fruition... But, the moment I saw all the people at the lodge and saw that there was an urban legend...:

...I KNEW that this was gonna be a Murder Mystery!! 👀 And I LOVE me a good MURDER MYSTERY...!!! 👏😆

But, you what I love more than a murder mystery...? 🤔

THESE TWO MOMENTS OF YOR FREAKING OUT FOR BEING IN THE SAME ROOM AS TWILIGHT!! 💗😍💗

My love for any TwiYor moments or crumbs will triumph over all!! 😤 (And plus, I'd probably freak out too if I had to share a room with Twilight...! 😅)

Moving on, as everyone gets comfortable, we get a glimpse at the killer and their first victim...:

Luckily, since Twilight is... Well, Twilight... He tends to the wounded man (who is still alive) and deduces that one of them must be the culprit (obviously)...!! Then, the people start to accuse Yor since she ran outside during the stabbing and THIS HAPPENED...:

KYAAAAAAAAAAA!! 😍

TWILIGHT PROTECTING YOR IS EVERYTHING TO ME!!! 💗😍💗

Though, we all know that Yor can protect herself, it always makes my melt when Twilight goes out of his way to defend his woman...!!! 💗🤗💗

Anyway, normally it would take a while before the culprit would be found out, but...:

...There is a child that can read minds and a dog that see into the future trapped in there with everyone as well, SOOO...:

AND THUS THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED!! 👏🤣 AND ANYA HAD A BLAST...!! 😆

And that was Mission 94, AND OF COURSE I LOVED IT!! 😆 This was such a fun chapter and would have never thought that a murder mystery plot would ever happen in Spy × Family, but here we are...!! 😁

I swear, the moment I figured out that this was a murder mystery, I was like: "How the hell is this going work...?! 🤷" But, it did not disappoint!! 👏😄 This type of plot couldn't have gone in any other way in Spy × Family in my honest opinion, so I think that Endo did a great job with it!! 😁

Anyway, I had fun with this chapter and would've loved to talk about it a lot sooner... But hey, stuff happens...!! 🤷 So until the next Mission... Take care, be safe out there and be kind to one another...!! SEE YA!! 👋😄

[p41nty]

they make me SICK

[metal-sludge]

L.A. GUNS (1983 - present) | BLAST!, April 1988.

[bladesofkyber]

EVIL DEAD (2013) dir. Fede Álvarez  | THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

cinematic parallels 

[maxescheibechlinichacheli]

[maxphilippa]

ayyy a wip! lookie!

[quackle]

clearly nobody reminded him 😐

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

ummm yeah imma be a lil MIA for a couple days

Imma be back I promise

[idridian]

the thing about mr sir arthur c. clarke is that his novels are like 95% sci-fi and futurism and philosophy and space travel and ruminations on the nature of man and the universe and technology and progress and what have you

but then the other 5% is him sitting you down at a table in a bare room illuminated by a single lightbulb, taking the seat across from you and saying, "ok, now HERE'S a bunch of weird shit that i'm horny about." and you just kind of have to live with that