Germany Chancellor plans lithium deal with Serbia after Rio ruling
Olaf Scholz plans to visit Serbia this week to secure supplies of lithium that are critical for the nation’s energy transition and auto industry.
IBTimes Gold put together a list (with photos) of the world’s 10 largest gold mines based on production data. Without giving away the results, IBTimes Gold says despite some difference of opinion, the Grasberg mine in Indonesia tops the list as world #1.
Production data was gleaned from the Raw Materials Group, Metals Economics Group and Intierra Resource Intelligence, as well as individual mining companies.
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Gold resists attacks by individual acids, but it can be dissolved by the aqua regia (nitro-hydrochloric acid), so named because it dissolves gold. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which have been used in mining. Gold dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise to the term the acid test.