• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    It’s the natural resources in the ground that we should be using as slowly as possible

    Iron ore is available everywhere. Steel production is more of a bottle neck, even if emergency development of a new mine might take 1 year (but increased production from existing mines is much quicker). In US, more iron ore is exported than used in domestic steel production.