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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-critical-minerals-echoes-oil-injustice.html

A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.

Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/03/power-ai-khosla-a16z-bet-startup-re…

To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining
Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.

Trump eyes his next DC renovation: The Lincoln Memorial (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/trump-lincoln-memorial-renovation-00951100
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p113#a260604p113

🚨Job Alert‼️🚨
5 year PostDoc, Technical University Berlin. #Mineralogy, #petrology, #geochemistry
Responsible for laser/solution-ICP-MS laboratory; research and teaching.
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finally spent time with dummy #2, aka john kelly's sumptuous history of the air pirate funnies underground #comix saga. breathtaking! but maybe most intrigued by this bit that implies that #disney opened a fake/honeypot head shop in glendale to try to bust the makers of the disneyland memorial orgy poste…

Das Wort wird vom hessischen Dorf Selters hergeleitet, dessen natürliche Mineralwasserquellen schon die Römer schätzten.

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/06/03/terra-ai-khosla-bhp-series-a

Terra AI closes $20M from Khosla and BHP Ventures
Investors are pouring money into mining tech and projects as demand for minerals soars.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute Podcast
Committed to developing the transformative people, technologies and approaches to address global sustainability challenges through the responsible supply of mineral resources...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralia…

🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Univ Iowa
Structural #geology and tectonics faculty position; teaching structural, field courses/camp, etc. Expertise: ‘Hard-rock’ Earth and planetary processes, petrology, geo(thermo) chronology, geochemistry, critical minerals, etc.
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Mineralogical Society: The Special Collection (Vol. 1) issue - ALL papers are available to read:
"150 years of the Mineralogical Society: Past Discoveries and Future Frontiers" #Mineralogy #MinMag

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