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		Legend2440 on Jan 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium Essentially no metals are mined in their pure elemental form - only the noble metals like gold or platinum.

Turing_Machine on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

Native copper exists. Sometimes even to a minable degree, as with the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.

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