[RomanSoldier19]

Magnesium is used for wide a range of products, especially aluminium alloys. But China, Europe’s main magnesium supplier, has been cutting output to conserve power supplies.

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[rarestia]

Magnesium is also a critical supplement which is sorely lacking in modern diets.

[Newbomb Turk]

There is no shortage. They just won’t let us mine it in the USA.

[House Atreides]

“Global coordination”? You mean something like the FREE MARKET? What an original idea. Maybe that, and supply/demand price signals, would deliver the most efficient allocation of resources.

Nah… that might not be “equitable”. ;-)

[Red Badger]

Magnesium is a critical military metal..........................

[Obadiah]

If only we had a one-world government we could coordinate and fix all this.

[Pollard]

The United States was in the 20th century the major world supplier of this metal, supplying 45% of world production even as recently as 1995

Ain't free trade grand?

[Vermont Lt]

We are just beginning to see what happens when JIT inventory fails on a massive level. The entire “system” could seize up.

It will happen slowly….then you notice….and then it’s gone.

[antidemoncrat]

“all adding to increasing signs of the urgency to establish a global supply-chain coordination mechanism to find win-win solutions rather than pressing one side to fix the problem.”

all adding to increasing signs of the urgency to establish a global government supply-chain coordination mechanism to find win-win solutions rather than pressing one side to fix the problem.

There, fixed it

[Paal Gulli]

Duralumin, the aluminum alloy that aviation was built on, contained 0.6% magnesium (+/-0.3%). More modern Alu alloys have about twice that much magnesium in them.