As you know we all live on a planet whose natural resources are finite. This means that raw materials such as rare minerals and ores are precious and the more devices, gadgets, machines and infrastructure we create the more we need to extract from the earth.
China has been the leader in mining our planet’s rare minerals and countries of the global north are looking for new frontiers such as asteroid mining and synthetic materials.
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