Actually, he’s quite fun today. Airships. Sure, I’ll get behind that, however, one teenise technical detail he’s missed:
A new generation of solar panels relies on gallium and indium, whose global supplies appear close to exhaustion.
Erm, no. Not even close. Both are extracted as by products from other mining processes. Both require only the addition of […]
Tags: Metals
You know, this makes so much damn sense it’s amazing that no one thought of doing this before.
If we think (as many do) that the actinides and above become stable near or around element 120, then instead of sweating buckets trying to make them, why not go and look and see if there are traces […]
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A slightly odd report in The Guardian about a case of thallium poisoning in Iraq.
Thallium is a highly toxic soft radioactive metal that was once widely used in rat poisons and insecticides.
It ain’t, I’m afraid, radioactive. There may or may not be radioactive isotopes (I’ve not bothered to look that up) but the commercial material […]
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American Elements has launched something called AE Bullion. This post should be considered as a warning not to actually buy any of their products.
Los Angeles based American Elements announced today the launch of AE Bullion™. The new product group will mint certified high purity coins and bars from approximately sixty advanced, rare and less common […]
Just a minor point for Mr. Google and anyone who might have received the press release from Mainstream Minerals Corporation:
New 40 ft intersection with a grade of 13.54 g/t Gallium (Ga), 21.50 g/t Scandium (Sc), 12.98 g/t Rubidium (Rb), 20.27 g/t Cerium (Ce), 8.25 g/t Lanthanum (La), 12.03 g/t Yttrium (Y), 1.83 g/t Ytterbium (Yb), […]
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Just a quick note for any thinking about investing in a company called Commerce Resources Corp.
In the company’s press release here they seem to have made a small error.
Rare earth oxides, which are processed into powdered form, may range in price from US$3.00 per kg, for cerium oxide to US$15,000 per kg for scandium oxide.
That’s […]
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