Coal & fertilizers

 

My preliminary results show that some Indonesian coal investors have increased their fortune by 5 times in 2023. Some fertilizer investors are from Russia too.

INVESTMENTS IN MINING AND METALLURGY. WHAT DO THE RICHEST PEOPLE CHOOSE?  Forbes World's Billionaires List  2021(1-1000):
1. Coal
2. Steel, iron ore
3. Copper
4. Gold
5. Aluminium, bauxite
6. Silver
7. Limestone
8. Zinc
9. Fertilizers
10. Nickel
11. Cobalt
12. Platinum, molybdenum
13. Palladium, diamond
14. Quartz, sand
15. Lead,  tungsten, uranium

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

CLASSIFICATION OF RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)

CLASSIFICATION OF RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
Author of the classification is Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya, 2023

RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
1. Rare earth element deposits
1.1. Primary deposits (More than 450 deposits)
1.2. Placer deposits (or Alluvial):
1.2.1. Marine deposits (or Ocean deposits) (More than 170 deposits)
 1.2.2. Fluvial deposits (More than 58 deposits)
1.3. Ion-adsorption clays (IAC) deposits (or Ionic clay deposits)

2. Waste
2.1. Industrial waste (Pit water, Phosphogypsum, Coal ash)
2.2. Secondary raw materials

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

 

CLASSIFICATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) DEPOSIT TYPES

CLASSIFICATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) DEPOSIT TYPES
Author of the classification is Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya, 2023
Rare earth element deposits
1. Primary deposits (More than 450 deposits)
2. Placer deposits (or Alluvial):
2.1. Marine deposits (or ocean deposits) (More than 170 deposits)
 2.2. Fluvial deposits (More than 58 deposits)
3. Ion-adsorption clays (IAC) deposits (or Ionic clay deposits)
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya 

 

What deposits do you know? What fields are the most promising? In what countries? Why?

 We know more than 681 deposits of REE in 79 countries to date. The 450 occurrence this primary deposits of REE.

Distribution of deposits by continent:
Asia - 32%
America - 23% (North America - 16%)
Europe - 17%
Africa - 16%
Australia - 12%

The greatest number of REE primary deposits by country:
Russia - 94 (of 96 deposits)
USA - 54 (of 80 deposits)
China - 19 (of 34 deposits)
Brazil - 16 (of 37 deposits)
Australia - 9 (of 75 deposits)

Countries that have 9-15 REE deposits:
Asia - Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India, Myanmar (these countries have mainly alluvial deposits), Saudi Arabia
Africa - Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Madagascar, Namibia
Europe - France, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway
North America - Canada, Greenland (Denmark)

Countries that have all types of REE deposits (primary deposits, alluvial and fluvial placers:
   USA
   China
   Brazil

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya