Happy Holidays
Christmas, 2021 Tikalon is on Christmas/New Year's Day holiday. The next article will be posted on Monday, January 3, 2022.
Santa gifting some critical minerals. These critical minerals, as determined by the United States Department of the Interior on May 18, 2018, include aluminum (bauxite), antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite (natural), hafnium, helium, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, niobium, platinum group metals, potash, the rare earth elements group, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium.[1] (Santa source image from Snapshots of The Past, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.[2] Click for larger image.)