Thursday, 21 June 2018

USGS will not be able to create a "scanning system of the future" never

"Final List of Critical Minerals 2018" contains 3 minerals. There not are minerals, methods for separating minerals and many other. 

The world can sleep peacefully. 

USGS will not be able to create a "scanning system of the future" never.

USGS published "Interior Releases 2018’s Final List of 35 Minerals Deemed Critical to U.S. National Security and the Economy"

The US is one of the main importers of steel (iron). However, the USGS believes that iron is not a critical or strategic metal.

 USGS have problems with mathematics, too, as with chemistry and mineralogy.
The US needs 52 metals.

 Helium is a gas, but not a mineral. How can they not distinguish between gas and mineral?
The USA produces more than 50-75% of Helium in the world. How Helium is "critical mineral" for the US?

Why did USGS make scandium in the list "critical minerals" twice?

Reference

1.  https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/30/1513861/0/en/Trump-Administration-Declares-Thirteen-Minerals-Found-in-Texas-Mineral-Resource-Round-Top-Project-as-Critical-Minerals.html
2. https://www.usgs.gov/news/interior-releases-2018-s-final-list-35-minerals-deemed-critical-us-national-security-and
3. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/18/2018-10667/final-list-of-critical-minerals-2018


You can read also

For me, it's not news that the USGS does not distinguish minerals from metals. Why didn't anyone tell them about that for 100 years?

USGS does not know that Helium is gas but not a mineral, and the US is the largest producer of Helium?

Why did USGS make scandium in the list "critical minerals" twice?

Ph. D. Natalia Petrovskaya

2 comments: