areas of interest for different materials after reading ‘material world’:

1. sand - ultra-pure quartz that chip makers rely on (Spruce Pine, NC, USA)

2. salt - deep rock-salt and polyhalite mined beneath the North Sea (North Yorkshire, UK)

3. iron - desert rail-and-port system moving ore to Asia (Pilbara, Western Australia)

4. copper - kilometre-deep open-pit crater (Chuquicamata, Chile)

5. oil - world’s largest conventional oilfield (Ghawar, Saudi Arabia)

6. lithium - solar-evaporation brine flats on a salt lake (Salar de Atacama, Chile)

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i didn't know much about it yet and really enjoyed it