Mit etwas beginnen, das Sie noch nicht wussten
Dann überallhin →Alles ist eine Kette
Alle Lieferketten →Dieselben neun Stufen stehen hinter fast jedem physischen Produkt. Klicken Sie auf eine Stufe, um zu sehen, was sich dort befindet.
Und hier ist dieselbe Kette mit realen Orten
Eine Tonne Kupfer, von einer chilenischen Grube bis zum Draht – 0,5 % Erzgehalt, eine Hütte auf einem anderen Kontinent und das Gold und Tellur, das dabei anfällt. Folgen →
Eine Sendung verfolgen, Grenze für Grenze
Alle Routen →Venezolanisches Extra-Schweröl und saudi-arabisches Arab Light sind beide „Erdöl", und nur eines davon kann fast überall raffiniert werden. Ein Material wählen, seinen Förderort wählen und beobachten, wer es an jeder Grenze hält.
Venezuelan extra-heavy crude to diesel, asphalt and aluminium anodes
Oil so thick it will not flow down a pipe, and cannot be refined by most refineries on Earth.
Saudi Arab Light to petrol, almost anywhere
The same commodity, a fraction of the effort — because of what the molecule is.
Alberta oil sands: mined like ore, refined like oil
The only oil in the world that is dug up with a shovel and graded like an orebody.
Chilean brine to a battery in a car
The ore is water. The first year and a half of processing is done by the sun, for free.
Australian spodumene to a battery, the fast way
Eight weeks instead of eighteen months, at the cost of a great deal more energy.
New Caledonian laterite to stainless steel
An island that smelts its own ore, and pays for it with the most expensive electricity in the industry.
Indonesian laterite to a battery cathode
A country that banned raw ore exports and built the processing industry instead.
Chilean sulfide concentrate to Chinese cathode to a wire
Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.
Oder dieselben Ketten ohne die Grenzen
Materialien, an denen die Welt Mangel hat
Die vollständige Liste kritischer Mineralien →Kritikalitätskennzeichnung gemäß USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Anteile führender Produzenten sind Schätzungen für 2025 aus derselben Quelle.
Alumina
A fine white powder of aluminium oxide, the halfway product between bauxite rock and aluminium metal.
Bismuth
A heavy metal that is, unusually, not very toxic — which is why it replaces lead in solders, plumbing brass and stomach…
Arsenic
Famous as a poison, but in ultra-pure form it is half of gallium arsenide, the compound behind high-frequency radio chips.
Hafnium
Zirconium's chemical shadow — always found with it, almost impossible to separate from it, and the opposite of it in a reactor…
Silicon
The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one atom in a billion is something…
Erbium
The rare earth that amplifies light inside a fibre-optic cable without ever turning it back into electricity.
Cerium
The most abundant rare earth — more common in the crust than copper — mostly used as a polishing powder and in catalytic…
Lutetium
The last and densest rare earth, used in the crystals that detect gamma rays inside a PET scanner.
Drei Einstiege
Neueste Berichterstattung
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