The European Commission has published a revised and extended list of Critical Raw Materials, based on threatened supply coupled with economic importance. The 2014 list includes 13 of the 14 materials identified in the previous list of ...
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In a recent Slate article, ASU professors Jim Elser and Bruce Rittman presented two vastly different scenarios of the future. One depicts a world teeming with food insecurity due to rising fertilizer prices and decreasing crop yields and ...
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-base Vale S.A. announced Friday that iron ore production reached the highest level for a fourth quarter, at 85.5 million metric tons, allowing for a larger exposure to the price rally of the final months of last year. ...
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