Boron

Beypazarı, a well-known Turkish mineral water company, has been banned in Switzerland on the grounds that it is harmful to health due to the detection of high amounts of boron, while company officials have denied these allegations.

An annual increase of 5.78% was recorded in the price index for construction materials for the period January-June 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to data published by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) on Tuesday.

The price index for construction materials for June 2023 reached 135.28 units (base year 2015=100).

Türkiye has become one of the prominent countries of the world that have a say in strategic industries, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on March 19.

After Serbia's government on Wednesday revoked a key decree greenlighting Rio Tinto's controversial lithium mining project, activists said they did not trust government promises that the mining project is over for good, fearing what might happen after elections in April.

Turkey's Eti Maden Lithium Production Plant inaugurated in the country's central province of Eskişehir on Dec. 26 will help prevent annually $20 million lithium imports, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez said.

Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez on Dec. 16 launched a new Turkish-made dishwasher liquid detergent product, which will be marketed under the brand name BORON.

This has been reported by the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, which added that the gross value of the deposit is estimated to be in excess of two billion dollars.

According to a preliminary feasibility study, this mine could be in operation for 21 years.

Scientists have suggested that interstellar dust capable of transporting micro-organisms across the universe is the source of life on Earth.

A study led by the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Arjun Berera has posited that bacteria and micro-animals, capable of surviving hazardous journeys through space, could be the source of life on our little blue planet.

Turkey is set export the commercially precious material boron in the near future thanks to the recent development of better technology, according to the members of a project team.

The project, developed by Yıldırım Beyazıt University in Ankara in cooperation with a defense industry firm, will be used particularly in fuel supplies for space rockets and long-range missiles.