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Ukraine supplies 90% high grade semiconductor global neon from it's iron ore mines. https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-supplies-90-perce...

Key iron ore mine locations have been ''annexed'' by recent Russian invasion - Crimea, etc. in a pincer like strategic configuration. Please see map

https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/shymanivske-iron-...

Ninety per cent of neon production is in Russia and Ukraine.[43] As of 2020, the company Iceblick, with plants in Odessa and Moscow, supplies 65 per cent of the world's production of neon, as well as 15% of the krypton and xenon.[44][45]

Neon gas is extracted as a byproduct of iron smelting from neon rich iron ore.


Hi, is Neon the reason Elon Musk is exploring Mars? Apparently it's meteors are rich in Neon, its atmosphere is rich in Neon and its mantle is possibly richher in Neon? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352... Mars’ atmospheric neon suggests volatile-rich primitive mantle


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