Travelling through deep time to find copper for a clean energy future

  • Written by: Dietmar Müller, Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
Travelling through deep time to find copper for a clean energy futureStunning mosaic of oxidised copper in the form of azurite (blue) and malachite (green) in a rock. Dimitri Houtteman, Author provided

More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The world is going to need a lot of metal, particularly copper.

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