S8 Ep597: SEG 11: Conrad Black Biographer Conrad Black details Canada’s immense chromium deposits in the "Ring of Fire." He highlights its strategic value for stainless steel production and US national security, potentially ending reliance on several unreliable for
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
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SEG 11: Conrad Black Biographer Conrad Black details Canada’s immense chromium deposits in the "Ring of Fire." He highlights its strategic value for stainless steel production and US national security, potentially ending reliance on several unreliable foreign minerals sources. (12)
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| 0:00.0 | Call my wife. |
| 0:01.5 | Calling UK Wildlife. |
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| 0:05.7 | BlackRock Investment Trust has a lot working for you. |
| 0:08.2 | Get to know them at blackrock.com. |
| 0:10.0 | Capital at risk marketing material. |
| 0:11.4 | BlackRock Investment Management UK Limited, |
| 0:13.0 | authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I'm John Batchler. I welcome my good colleague, Conrad Black, distinguished biographerographer writing his National Post column about the |
| 0:37.6 | riches of Canada. I've spoken generally about them over the years, but it's really fun to |
| 0:43.8 | explore them in depth. And this week's richness is chromium, a deposit of chromium that matches |
| 0:51.7 | anything in the solar system, and it appears it's ready to |
| 0:55.9 | go to market. It appears that way. However, Conrad, a very good evening to you. I understand |
| 1:01.5 | Canada's got enormous treasures in the ground. It also has enormous treasures coming out of the |
| 1:08.2 | ground, the oil sands, for example, and all of the parts of |
| 1:13.2 | Ontario that lend themselves to mining and exploitation and development. What is chromium for? |
| 1:20.8 | Why do we need it? Good evening to you. Yeah, good evening to you, John. Well, the chief value of it is |
| 1:27.0 | stainless steel. |
| 1:29.1 | You know, a steel that doesn't rust is a much stronger and more reliable material for particularly sensitive and sophisticated devices that are launched either into the water or into the air or into outer space. |
| 1:52.2 | And, you know, stainless steel, it's not only for dinnerware, you use it in warships and aircraft and missiles and so on. |
| 2:02.3 | And it's irreplaceable. |
| 2:05.8 | You have to have it. |
| 2:07.0 | Now, there isn't a shortage of chrome in the world right now, but now that there's this |
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