Category: mineral

LIVE NOW: House Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing on US Energy and Mineral Potential

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources holds an oversight hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 8 on “Unleashing America’s Energy and Mineral Potential.” The Epoch Times will livestream the hearing. …


House Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing on US Energy and Mineral Potential

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources holds an oversight hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 8 on “Unleashing America’s Energy and Mineral Potential.” The Epoch Times will livestream the hearing. …


Salt–An Essential Dietary Nutrient

Everyone likes to talk about the good ol’ days, and in food circles, we hark back to ancestral diets that were more natural and more nutritious. However, in one respect, modern people enjoy a huge advantage over their ancestors: Everybody in the world today has access to plentiful, inexpensive salt. An interesting article on the…


Federal Government Moves to Cut China out of Canadian Critical Mineral Industry

After a national security review, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is ordering three Chinese resource companies to sell their interests in Canadian critical mineral firms. Champagne’s order comes less than a week after he said Canada would be limiting the involvement of foreign state-owned companies in the industry. Critical minerals and metals, such as lithium, cadmium, nickel…


Communist China’s Grand Strategy for a Small African Country (Part 2)

In addition to its rich reserves of iron ore, the Republic of Guinea also holds 7.4 billion metric tons (pdf) or one-fourth of the world’s total reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Data provided by Western Securities show that in 2020, Guinea exported 82 million metric tons of this important mineral, of which 64 percent was…


The Chinese Regime’s Growing Economic Footprint in Guinea: Part 2

News Analysis In addition to its rich reserves of iron ore, the Republic of Guinea also holds 7.4 billion metric tons (pdf) or one-fourth of the world’s total reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Data provided by Western Securities show that in 2020, Guinea exported 82 million metric tons of this important mineral, of which 64…


Taliban Seeks Mining Cooperation With South Korea, China Upset

Afghanistan’s newly ensconced Taliban regime has been looking to China for major economic support, but the Taliban’s lithium-mining invitation to South Korea has displeased the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). To keep Beijing happy, the Taliban offered it copper mining rights. Enduring 20 years of war, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world….