{"id":142067,"date":"2025-12-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142067"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:00:09","slug":"how-china-pulled-off-a-critical-mineral-tech-revolution-in-just-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142067","title":{"rendered":"How China pulled off a critical mineral tech revolution in just 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a European start-up developed a breakthrough technology capable of transforming low-grade bauxite \u2013 once considered waste \u2013 into high-quality feedstock for aluminium production, they announced it at an industry conference in Miami, United States.<br \/>\nThe innovation not only promises to revive exhausted mines, but also opens a new door to extracting critical minerals and rare earth elements essential for semiconductors, electric vehicles and national defence.<br \/>\nWith Western governments from&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3334322\/how-china-pulled-critical-mineral-production-tech-revolution-just-10-months?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 PostWhen a European start-up developed a breakthrough technology capable of transforming low-grade bauxite \u2013 once considered waste \u2013 into high-quality feedstock for aluminium production,&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\/142067"}],"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=142067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}