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А вот та же цепочка с реальными географическими точками
Одна тонна меди — от чилийского карьера до провода: руда с содержанием 0,5%, плавильный завод на другом континенте, и золото с теллуром, попутно извлекаемые в процессе. Проследить цепочку →
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Все маршруты →Венесуэльская сверхтяжёлая нефть и саудовская Arab Light — обе «нефть», однако только одну из них можно переработать практически в любом месте. Выберите материал, выберите место его добычи и проследите, кто владеет им у каждой границы.
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.
Или те же цепочки без границ
Материалы, которых не хватает миру
Полный список критических минералов →Признак критичности согласно USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Доли ведущих производителей — оценки на 2025 год из того же источника.
Bauxite
A reddish soil-like rock, formed where tropical rain has rotted rock for millions of years, and the only ore aluminium is made…
Cobalt
A hard, bluish metal that keeps a battery's cathode stable so it does not overheat, and that holds its strength when red hot.
Titanium
A metal as strong as steel at about half the weight, which does not corrode in seawater or in the human body.
Boron
An element that makes glass resist thermal shock, fibreglass strong, and — with iron and neodymium — the strongest magnets…
Caesium
The softest metal, liquid on a warm day, and the element that defines the second.
Graphite
Pure carbon in soft, slippery sheets — the same stuff as pencil lead — and the material that holds the lithium when a battery…
Palladium
Platinum's cheaper cousin for most of the twentieth century, then briefly more expensive than gold because petrol cars need it.
Antimony
A brittle, silvery metalloid used mostly to stop things burning, and in the primers and tracer rounds of ammunition.
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