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theresourcecurse

ART + INFORMATION |  The Global Impact of Resource Extraction on People and the Planet

What is the Resource Curse?

What is the Resource Curse?

WATCH | Show Me the Money: The Economy on the Iron Range

Many legislators are looking at mining towns in Minnesota and Michigan as examples to promote new mining projects, but the economic truth may not be so rosy. Are the economic benefits really worth the environmental risk? This short has been updated with contemporary statistics.

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COBALT, COPPER, LITHIUM, NICKEL

AND RARE EARTHS, PLAY A CRUCIAL

ROLE IN THE PRODUCTION OF CLEAN

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES."

"CRITICAL MINERALS, SUCH AS

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70%

"The battery sector is responsible for 70 per cent of the global demand for cobalt."

CRITICAL MINERALS | SOURCES & USES

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CRITICAL MINERALS | SOURCES & USES

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