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Power Metal review: The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Power Metal review: The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

Power Metal review: The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Lithium for batteries being extracted in the Atacama desert, Chile

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Vince Beiser (Wildfire Books (UK, 20 November); Riverhead Books, (US, 19 November))

The smartphone on which you are probably reading this article takes a heavy toll on the planet. If it is an iPhone, over 30 kilograms of ore had to be mined to harvest the metals within it, from the nickel and cobalt in its battery to the rare earths in its touch screen.

Even larger volumes of such “critical metals”…



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