Phosphate used in solar panels/ batteries

[fromport]

'Great news': EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock recently discovered in Norway is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

www.euractiv.com

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

 

[rodrick]

china’s going to be pissed someone else besides them has raw materials

 

[Danke]

china’s going to be pissed someone else besides them has raw materials

They’ll just bribe a few politicians and buy the property.

 

[houseofancients]

They’ll just bribe a few politicians and buy the property.

in the EU/Norway..... Highly doubt it

besides, norway has massive oil and natural gas reserves and have nationalised their oil / gas production and profits of that have all been put in a national fund , to be used as buffer for their own.. ( biggest fund in the world btw)