Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Where 6 Metals Used For Electric Cars Come From | True Cost | Insider News Marathon" video.

  1. I'm Australian and Sydney harbour considered one of the Worlds most scenic harbors is now so toxic from the leached chemicals from a few old plants, Phillips and Union Carbide among them that NOTHING caught in the harbor is fit for eating. It used to be an extraordinary fishery and the families of the last commercial fishermen who had (past tense) licenses are riddled with PCBs and other forever chems. They used to feed the by-catch to their families including their grand children. We can't sue either Union Carbide or Phillips because they have now been chopped up and sold off.
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  2. I'm an engineer and Simon Michaux another engineer has coined a phrase. "Its not that the energy transition is impossible BUT we need a better plan." He says that with respect to the actual known reserves and production rates of some of these key minerals, BUT his line also applies to the environment. Unfortunately jumping onto various bandwagons are people so intent on their solution and making money from it that any other consequence is irrelevant.
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  3. I'm an engineer and Simon Michaux another engineer has coined a phrase. "Its not that the energy transition is impossible BUT we need a better plan." He says that with respect to the actual known reserves and production rates of some of these key minerals, BUT his line also applies to the environment. Unfortunately jumping onto various bandwagons are people so intent on their solution and making money from it that any other consequence is irrelevant.
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  4. I'm an engineer and have worked in Australia's mining industry. Its just the way the mining industry distinguishes between the corporate owned mines versus the small operations where the owner of the claim actually works the claim and usually with a lot less modern technology. If you watch any of those "reality TV" shows on Yukon or Alaskan gold mining that's considered artisanal mining. If you look at the definition of artisanal there's 2 definitions. The first refers to the work of artisans which is what most of you are thinking. The second is referring to traditional or non-mechanised methods. YES - Those small gold operations in the Yukon & Alaska use machinery but that actual sluice method of collecting the gold is the traditional way of collecting gold. They are lucky to get 60% of the gold present. The industrial methods using crushing, grinding, concentrators and cyanide leaching can get around 95% of the gold from the ore. YES I have worked onsite at a gold mine as well as onsite on copper, iron ore, uranium and bauxite mines.
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  5.  @indigobluu  Sorry to burst your bubble but there's millions of people of working in crap conditions so that you can have access to computers like the one you are on right now. Go look into Tantalum its one of the key minerals that are required to make key components that you find in every mobile phone, iPad, laptop and everything else with a computer chip. Tantalum is NOT used to make computer chips its used to make the tiny capacitors that sit beside the computer chip to help it work. I'm Australian and we have a couple of the largest tantalum mines in the World. They have NOT been very profitable because the main competitors are regions of Africa where civil wars are funded by Tantalum. The mines are some of the worst in the world. There was a documentary made about it called "Tantalum Wars."
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  6.  @Jboooy18  AWESOME comment 🙌🙌🙌🙌
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  7.  @AleTheLittle  well said
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