Dateline: May 15 2026

Everybody’s talking about the latest global economic crunch — a shortage of raw material resources. It’s not as if we’re actually running out of coal, oil or gas, and there’s plenty of lithium in the Salton Sea. But production capacities for nickel, aluminium, titanium and a bunch of rare-earth minerals are causing big headaches worldwide...

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