Chemistry Critical Minerals

[Zafer]

Please share your posts in this thread reserved for the discussion of critical minerals

The definition of critical minerals or materials vary from nation to nation; it is practically materials not widely available but made by very few suppliers. These materials are usually needed in high technology or military applications.

Particularly materials used in

• High quality magnets used in FPV drones, other small drones, electric vehicles and in missile maneuvering motors
• High quality batteries
• Super alloys

These minerals or materials maybe in various states in the supply chain

• Reserves unexplored
• Reserves known
• Ores being mined
• Ores refined to an intermediate mineral
• Minerals refined to a directly usable state (like sponge form for titanium)
• Minerals converted to ingots
• Minerals converted to alloys
• Alloys converted to blank forms used in industries, like sheets, bars, discs (like for turbine blisks), powder for additive manufacturing

A sub category of critical materials is defined as Rare Earth Minerals which consist of 17 minerals that are only mined and refined by a few nations.

China practically dominates the world market for most of these minerals.

Critical raw materials - Wikipedia

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Rare-earth element - Wikipedia

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[Zafer]

Antimony - Wikipedia

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Antimony is what makes soft lead bullets harder. Your 9mm bullet has 5-28 % antimony in it. A hard cast lead bullet if also heat treated can penetrate a bear's hard scull while ordinary solf bullets won't. China started sanctioning antimony starting a few months ago.

 

[Zafer]

How Much Control China Has Over the World’s Critical Minerals

China dominates the world’s critical minerals, as the largest supplier of more than half of key materials.

www.visualcapitalist.com

 

[Ripley]

How Much Control China Has Over the World’s Critical Minerals

China dominates the world’s critical minerals, as the largest supplier of more than half of key materials.

www.visualcapitalist.com

@Zafer could you please try uploading again maybe. i can’t see the image.

EDIT: Thank you. It’s back on

 

[Zafer]

The 50 Minerals Critical to U.S. Security

This graphic lists all minerals that are deemed critical to both the economic and national security of the United States.

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[Zafer]

US and China made a verbal agreement that will suspend China's REE exports ban for a year. This ban hurts the magnet sector the most. Both civilian and military are affected. The agreement is not inked and it is yet to be seen if it will be exercised.

Meanwhile Türkiye has all the mineral reserves used in the making of these magnets and extraction efforts are underway.

 

[Zafer]

All of the 7 elements that make up strong NdFeB (Neodymium Ferro Boron) magnets occur in Türkiye

 

[Zafer]

Types of High Power Magnet (SH/UH/EH/AH Series), Permanent Magnet Factory | JINTIAN COPPER

High power magnet provided by JINTIAN, requires high anti-demagnetization ability, and its working environment has relatively high requirements on temperature. They are applied in new energy vehicles, industrial motors, etc. Welcome to ask high grade magnet price!

jtcopper.com

NdFeB magnets come in various grades. These grades show the magnet's magnetic force and heat resistance.
High power electric motors found in flying cars use a minimum of 180°C resistant mahnets.

 

[Zafer]

If you have the ingredients does that mean you can make the magnets. You certainly need to learn how to make them. In Türkiye production of NdFeB magnets have been achieved at lab level several years ago. However due to lack of materials scrap magnets were ground to have the powder to be used in the production.

 

[Zafer]

Factory visit to a Chinese drone motor manufaturer, includes magnet making.

 

[Zafer]

The humble machine that turns metal into magnets given that you have the right mixture of minerals in the alloy.