{"id":133524,"date":"2025-07-27T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133524"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:00:11","slug":"no-more-achilles-heel-huge-find-boosts-chinas-zirconium-reserve-five-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133524","title":{"rendered":"No more Achilles\u2019 heel? Huge find boosts China\u2019s zirconium reserve five-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a discovery that could reshape the global balance of strategic mineral supply, Chinese geologists have uncovered a huge zirconium deposit in the Kubai Basin, on the northern fringe of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang \u2013 a deadly stretch of arid land that may now become a new driver of China\u2019s hi-tech military ambitions.<br \/>\nThe newly identified deposit, embedded within Cenozoic continental sedimentary layers dating to the Paleogene and Neogene periods, represents the first super-large zirconium&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3319519\/no-more-achilles-heel-hypersonics-race-china-zirconium-find-boosts-reserve-five-fold?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a discovery that could reshape the global balance of strategic mineral supply, Chinese geologists have uncovered a huge zirconium deposit in the Kubai&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}