China just stopped exporting two minerals the world's chipmakers need | CNN Business
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China’s exports of two rare minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors fell to zero in August, a month after Beijing imposed curbs on sales overseas, citing national security.
  • BigFigEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Canada, Finland, Russia and the United States for Germanium.

    And both are usually byproducts from zinc refining

    • ChapolinColoradoNZ
      10•1 year ago

      dumb ass me: “so germanium doesn’t come from Germany?!”

      • BigFigEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        Well it WAS first studied and named in Germany by a German Chemist