{"id":14592,"date":"2025-09-11T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:10:11","slug":"namibia-to-boost-sulphuric-acid-production-as-critical-mineral-output-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14592\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia to boost sulphuric acid production as critical mineral output rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5UILIZXZNZIDPOI7AA33BAWHWE-820x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636275\"  \/>A bird flies past the logo of Vedanta installed on the facade of its headquarters in Mumbai, India January 31, 2018. REUTERS\/Danish Siddiqui\/ File Photo<\/p>\n<p>WINDHOEK, Sept 11 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Namibia is set to increase its sulphuric acid production in response to rising critical mineral output, with Green Metals Refining and Vedanta\u00a0announcing plans on Thursday to set up and revive plants, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Sulphuric acid is widely used in the extraction processes for metals including uranium, copper, manganese and rare earths used in clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bird flies past the logo of Vedanta installed on the facade of its headquarters in Mumbai, India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,13972,80],"class_list":["post-14592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-southern-africa","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}