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'Artisanal Mining' is one of the best "spins" I have ever come across.

One thing this report leaves out is all the equipment used to mine and process are combustion engines and coal produced power plants. And it is coat prohibited to change any of this.

In the end, nothing is done without costs. For any situation, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

A copper mine in northern Arizona leaches into the local stream; the fish cannot be eaten as they are toxic. Birds and goats will die if they drink much of it.

In minute @6:00 the guy says "que vengan ascinerando" which you translated roughly to "they should come to us with dialogue". That's not a bad translation but the language he uses expresses decades of frustration with companies that have rejected the dialogue previously.

Mining is mining. It is dirty, uses lots of water and creates lots of waste. It was a problem long before EVs came on the scene, but now we say mining for lithium is so awful?! If we single out lithium for EVs then we also need to get agitated over gold mining, tar sands (oil), bauxite mining (aluminium), phosphate mining, copper mining, coal mining and opencast iron mining.

People often complain about lithium mines and damaging the Earth but the ratio of the area covered by lithium mines vs coal mines is the same as the the ratio of the state of Delaware to all of Canada, the USA and 1/2 of Mexico combined.

How fresh Mountain Dew is mined for our refreshment.

Uranium for the first atomic bomb used in the Manhattan project came from DRC. Before batteries, Li was used in fusion bombs as Lithium Deuteride fuel. This is why Li was designated as a strategic mineral.

That water looks so refreshing and tasty 😩

Old copper telephone cables can be replaced by optical fiber and the copper can be recycled.

Now wasn't that defunct copper mine there before EVs were even mass produced?

Please also make a True Cost video about the petrol or diesel-powered vehicle and it should start with taking petroleum from underground, the extraction process, the processing, transporting it to petrol pumps, and burning it to the atmosphere, and what happens to it once it is in the atmosphere, and also whether there is an option to recycle the burnt petrol...

About the extinction of the polymetallic fields, would it not be possible to work inward from the edges, drop less valuable stones (maybe leftovers from quarries) in the sectors that have already been mined, and then wait for silts to settle and animals to migrate to the new stone fields before continuing to mine? It’s not a perfect solution but loss of habitat can probably be mitigated by providing new habitats elsewhere while we harvest the stuff useful to us. If the polymetallics are also being utilized by the ecosystems as a nutrient, the miners could just yeet a certain percentage over the edge to help reseed the new environments. This is far from a perfect solution and I would like to hear some other peoples’ thoughts on the matter. Always good to learn.

People make it out as if coal, oil and gas just magically appears out of thin air and never impacts anyone, either when extracted or burned.

Lithium mining looks like it’s going to direct extraction from brines. The Salton Sea in California is loaded with brines a mile down and they are already extracting the brines for power generation. So a plant is being readied that will extract the lithium then what’s left is to be pumped back into the ground.

Apparently a new and profitable source of CU is the charging stations. Thieves are cutting off the charging cables for the CU.

Source on NMC being the most popular chemistry? Cobalt is used in conventional vehicles through the oil refining industry, as a catalyst. I wouldn't be surprised it's directly in the cars through alloys too.

Also people assume that there will be no alternative to lithium, and yet sodium batteries are on the verge. Being fine alternatives for LFP batteries. All in all lithium mining is still miniscule compared to other mining processes.

To whom it may concern to Insider News: Could you do a segment video about manufacturing EVs with and without Petroleum Materials/Products if possible? Thank you!