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Multi-million pound minerals processing plant confirmed for Teesside bringing 130 jobs:
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... ts-section

The minerals processing plant will produce materials used in the manufacture of powerful magnets, which will ultimately be placed in items, including mobile phones, wind turbines and in the automotive sector

Great news for the UK, but a shame for Tanzania who miss out on the 'value added' potential from their minerals...

The west is still colonialising Africa. Not only are we taking their people but we're still exploiting their mineral assets and denying them jobs. OK we can take in migrants and they can send some money home but our rich people still get the better end of the deal because of all the investment necessary to accommodate the immigrants. If our rich weren't making money out of the deal we wouldn't be accepting so many immigrants but woke culture won't see that.

kenneal - lagger wrote: ↑29 May 2021, 14:02 The west is still colonialising Africa.

& China too......?

China IS colonising Africa, I would say. They haven't been doing it long enough to "still" be doing it.

They've taken Russia's place.

I think Australia should also be doing this with their rare earths instead of exporting the ores for further processing. Anyway good news for the unemployed Chemists of the North-East. I hear that some of the waste products (Thorium I think) of the extraction process are radioactive.

I hear that Afghanistan also has rare earths there. Perhaps the Taliban (which I think means "Students") could be persuaded to put down their guns and study for Masters degrees in ion-exchange chromatographic techniques. We can all live in hope.