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Can mining save the world?

They are touted as our way out of climate chaos and essential for making the things we use, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Vanessa Baird sets out to investigate critical minerals – and the rush to get them.

You may not know them by name, but by the time you get up, turn on a device or have your first cup of tea, you will have engaged with multiple critical minerals.

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Vanessa Baird

Vanessa Baird

Dig, baby, dig! Can critical minerals save the world?

We have Donald Trump to ‘thank’ for putting critical minerals so vividly on the world map of naked greed and ruthless opportunism.

Anyone who had not heard of them before – and rare earth elements, a sub-section of said minerals – may well associate them forever more with the...

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Mixed Media: Film

Rumours; The Girl with the Needle.

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Mixed Media: Music

Delight; If I Must Die and other works.

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