Under Scholz’s stewardship, the German industry is struggling to find new technologies and trade partners to provide the backbone for the coming green transformation.
Some of the biggest names in copper have found high-ranking political allies to support their efforts to get the metal added to a list of minerals deemed critical to the US.
A radioactive pond filled in and covered in grass in Sillamae, Estonia, is host to the only major processing plant outside Asia for rare earth metals used in the automotive industry.
