There’s another small source of production capacity in the U.S. The global metals company Umicore recycles germanium from manufacturing scrap, fiber optic cables, solar cells, and infrared ...

In the US, Trafigura Group’s Nyrstar unit is evaluating building a germanium facility in Tennessee. Recycling could also be key. Factory-floor scrap already accounts for some supply of both metals.

China hits back at U.S. tariffs by restricting export of crucial metals: tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium.

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

One of the graduate students, Seymour Benzer, accidentally discovered that a crystal of germanium -- a semiconductor which was not well understood at the time -- could withstand higher voltage ...

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is pitching a joint investment with the United States to bolster Teck Resources Ltd.’s TECK-B-T production of the critical mineral germanium.

This story was first published by Grist . In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate ...