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Overlooked tin connects the Digital Age

Critical Minerals Alliances 2022 - September 12, 2022

From flashlights to supercomputers, tin is the glue for an electronic age

Lost in the clamor for lithium, nickel and other metals needed for the batteries powering electric vehicles and modern electronics, or the rare earth elements that turn stored energy into motion, is the enormous need for a much more modest metal that is so fundamental to the advancement of technology that it almost goes unse...

 

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