Begin met iets wat u nog niet wist
Ga dan overal naartoe →Alles is één keten
Alle toeleveringsketens →Dezelfde negen fasen liggen ten grondslag aan vrijwel elk fysiek product. Klik op een fase om te zien wat zich daar bevindt.
En hier is dezelfde keten met echte plaatsen erin
Eén ton koper, van een Chileense dagbouwmijn naar een draad — 0,5% erts, een smelterij op een ander continent, en het goud en telluur dat onderweg vrijkomt. Volg het →
Volg één zending, grens voor grens
Alle trajecten →Venezolaanse extra-zware ruwe olie en Saoedische Arab Light zijn allebei 'olie', en slechts één ervan kan vrijwel overal worden geraffineerd. Kies een materiaal, kies waar het uit de grond kwam, en zie wie het bij elke grens in handen heeft.
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.
Of neem dezelfde ketens zonder de grenzen
Materialen waaraan de wereld een tekort heeft
De volledige lijst kritieke mineralen →Kritikaliteitsvlag zoals aangeduid in de USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Aandelen van de grootste producenten zijn schattingen voor 2025 uit dezelfde bron.
Bauxite
A reddish soil-like rock, formed where tropical rain has rotted rock for millions of years, and the only ore aluminium is made…
Zirconium
A metal that barely absorbs neutrons, which is why nuclear fuel rods are wrapped in it, and whose sand form is a foundry and…
Holmium
The rare earth with the strongest magnetic moment of any element, used in the pole pieces of the most powerful laboratory…
Aluminium
A light silvery metal made by passing an enormous electric current through dissolved bauxite — which is why people call it…
Phosphate Rock
Rock full of the element phosphorus — the P in fertiliser, and now the P in the LFP batteries used in most new electric cars in…
Alumina
A fine white powder of aluminium oxide, the halfway product between bauxite rock and aluminium metal.
Terbium
The scarcest of the four magnet rare earths, used in tiny quantities to make a magnet survive high temperature.
Titanium
A metal as strong as steel at about half the weight, which does not corrode in seawater or in the human body.
Drie manieren om in te stappen
Meest recente verslaggeving
Alle nieuws →Koppen en samenvattingen van bekende uitgevers, elk met een link naar het origineel. Wij publiceren artikelen niet opnieuw.
White Hydrogen Drilling Push Gains Momentum Across Three Continents
Scientists and start-ups believe naturally occurring hydrogen could be the next major geological breakthrough, unleashing huge amounts of hydrogen to power the clean energy transition.…
Tungsten surge transforms Northcliff’s Sisson economics
The open-pit operation would produce 598,000mtu of tungsten trioxide annually, plus 4.2 million lb. of molybdenum.
SW US mine rush collides with water limits
Washington’s push to mine more copper and lithium in the U.S. Southwest is running into a harder limit than permitting: whether projects can secure enough water to operate for decades...…
SW US CEO chat: Gunnison Copper seeks government cash and partner
Gunnison Copper’s (TSX: GCU; US-OTC: GCUMF) role in helping reduce U.S. dependence on imported red metal now turns more on how it’s financed than on the rocks in Arizona. Backed... The post…
SW US mine rush collides with water limits
The gap between a legal right and a secure physical supply is becoming more apparent in the US critical mineral production.
End of a dollar-centered world nears, gold to replace some bonds, fund manager says
We're in a very early part of a generational boom market in commodities, says Willem Middelkoop.
US Forest Service signs off on South32 Hermosa’s mine plan in Arizona
Hermosa hosts one of the world’s largest undeveloped zinc deposits, a battery-grade manganese deposit and the emerging Peak copper discovery.
Tungsten surge transforms Northcliff’s Sisson economics
Northcliff Resources’ (TSX: NCF; US-OTC: NCFFF) new feasibility study for the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick puts its post-tax value at more than four times the cost to…