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Critical mineral, critical risk

Zircon is a mineral sand abundant in the Mallee. Picture: Geoscience Australia
Edmund Coleman

A MINERAL sand found in abundance across the Mallee has emerged as a key ingredient critical to China’s military and nuclear programs, according to an ABC Four Corners investigation aired last week. The program revealed growing concern that Australia’s exports of zircon – a heavy mineral sand refined to produce zirconium – may be at […]

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