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Engineering Precious Metals
Precious metals may seem unlikely as engineering materials, but the same expensive metals used for coinage and jewelry also satisfy applications requiring the ultimate in corrosion resistance or electrical conductivity – Machine Design
A Strategic Approach to Rare-Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
China dominates production of the rare-earth metals that are vital to many green technologies. That doesn’t need to be a problem for other countries. GTM (Green Tech Media)
A New Kind of Gold Rush
What’s in your stuff? Most of us give no thought to the materials that make modern life possible. Yet technologies such as smartphones, electric vehicles, large screen TVs and green energy generation depend on a range of chemical elements that most people have never heard of. Until the late 20th century, many were regarded as mere curiosities – but now they are essential. In fact, a mobile phone contains over a third of the elements in the periodic table. World Economic Forum