新闻来源：www.wsj.com
原文地址：China Harnesses a Technology That Vexed the West, Unlocking a Treasure Chest
新闻日期：2024-09-09
六年前，中国工程师踏上了将废料变 treasure 的冒险之路。他们的目标是印尼偏远岛屿上大量含镍和钴的矿砂，但这些矿砂品位较低，一度被视为废料。如果能解决处理问题，他们将解锁两种关键矿石的新来源，这两种矿石正是电动汽车电池所需的重要成分。
原文摘要：
Six years ago, Chinese engineers set out on a risky path to turn trash into treasure.Their target was the vast quantities of ore containing nickel and cobalt that blanket Indonesia’s distant islands but are of such low grade that they were treated as little more than waste. If the engineers could figure out how to process it, they would unlock a new source of not one but two minerals the world needs for electric-vehicle batteries.
