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CNET: Digging for Rare Earths: the Mines Where Iphones Are …
CNET: Digging for rare earths: The mines where iPhones are born.By Jay Greene September 26, 2012 12:00 AM PDT.About Jay Greene.Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle and focuses on investigations and analysis. He's a former Seattle bureau
Digging in on rare earth, the next front in the US …
Digging in on rare earth, the next front in the US supply chain war with China. Mark Magnier. July 10, 2020, 2:30 AM · 10 min read. As US-China relations hit new lows, Washington is redoubling ...
Digging A Deep Hole: Rare Earths Debacle Puts U.S. Trade Policy …
Discussion on US trade policy concerning rare-earth metals. By Mike Alberti – Remapping Debate – Published: January 11, 2011 While the recent controversy surrounding China's almost complete control over rare earth elements may seem to some like an arcane debate over minerals with hard-to-pronounce names, for many experts and economists it represents a …
China Wrestles with the Toxic Aftermath of Rare Earth …
Beginning in the 1990s, rare earth mining took off in this region, located in Southeast China about 300 miles north of Hong Kong. As China began to produce more smartphones, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and other high …
Where to Find Rare Earth Elements | NOVA | PBS
Digging Deeper Now, rare earths are not common, but they're actually not that rare, either. The name is leftover from the 15 th century when "rare" referred to "strange" or "unusual ...
Digging A Deep Hole: Rare Earths Debacle Puts U.S. Trade Policy …
By Mike Alberti – Remapping Debate – Published: January 11, 2011 While the recent controversy surrounding China's almost complete control over rare earth elements may seem to some like an arcane debate over minerals with hard-to-pronounce names, for many experts and economists it represents a concrete example of a broader long-term failure of United States trade and …
Digging in | The Economist
Rare earths Digging in China restricts exports of some obscure but important commodities. Sep 2nd 2010. Hong kong BEHIND the rise of resource-poor countries like Japan, South Korea and China into ...
Digging for rare earths: The mines where iPhones are born
Massive yellow excavators pull huge clumps of dirt from the earth, depositing them into equally giant haulers. And on this baking hot July day, when the temperatures approach 100 degrees, a geyser...
Rare earths processor buys mining rights in Greenland
1 The Canadian rare earth processor Neo Performance Materials plans to buy the rights to explore a mineral deposit in Greenland that contains the rare earth elements neodymium and praseodymium ...
Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
Seventeen metals on the periodic table of elements have caused the commotion from Tokyo to Washington, D.C. They are known as rare-earth metals, important ingredients in making the motors and...
Biz digging deep for rare earths - Variety
biz digGING deep for rare earths Manufacturers of consumer electronics and professional filmmaking equipment have been on a rocky ride in the last several years because of the stunning ups and ...
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts, with Jordy Lee
Jordy Lee: Rare earth elements refer to a group of 17 elements that have similar electron configurations. That means they have very distinct physical and chemical properties. They're like that bottom kind of floating row, …
Digging for rare earths: The mines where iPhones are born
rare-earth minerals and rise with the bubbles that float to the top. The company then skims off the rare-earth concentrate. The remainder, about 92 percent of the entire mix, has no commercial value. In Baotou, that mix, which includes slightly radioactive thorium and uranium and other toxic chemicals, goes into the tailings lake.
Digging deeper into rare earths: the latest weapon in the US …
The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, rare earths are 17 elements that serve as key components in devices ranging from hi-tech smartphones and cameras to flat-screen televisions and computers. China dominates the global supply chain – and Washington relies heavily on the Asian superpower to access the metals.
Mining for rare earth metals takes an ugly toll on Myanmar's ...
Rare earths are also omitted from the European Union's 2021 regulation on conflict minerals. The United States offshored its rare earths mining to China in the 1980s because of environmental and cost issues. China's leader at the time, Deng Xiaoping, declared rare earths China's answer to "oil in the Middle East."
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts 12/22/2020
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts. Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Jordy Lee is interviewed on this podcast regarding his research of rare earth minerals, a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are durable, have a variety of modern uses, and are essential components of many renewable technologies. Lee expands on why the costs …
The Razor's Edge: Digging Into The Rare Earths And EVs Rush …
The 2020-21 bull market has seen many familiar themes recycled amidst a very liquid public market environment. The rare earths market, and its flag bearer Molycorp, may not have been the most obvious boom to re-emerge, but here we are. Molycorp's descendant, MP Materials, came public via a SPAC last…
CNET: Digging for Rare Earths: the Mines Where Iphones Are Born
CNET: Digging for rare earths: The mines where iPhones are born.By Jay Greene September 26, 2012 12:00 AM PDT.About Jay Greene.Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle and focuses on investigations and analysis. He's a former Seattle bureau
Digging in | The Economist
An unfolding collision around a group of elements known as "rare earths" is seen by some as a test of China's willingness to reciprocate. Rare earths have become increasingly important in...
Digging deeper into the U.S.'s only rare earths mine
Put on your hard hat and get ready to dig deeper into the only rare earths mine in the U.S. -- now thrown into the midst of the trade war with China. CNN's C...
Digging into the Rare Earths Predicament - Global Sherpa
Digging into the Rare Earths Predicament. Oct 22, 2010. It's hard to resist getting caught up in the intriguing tale about China's control over the all-important supply of rare earth elements ("REs"). It turns out that these tiny, mysterious substances are necessary to make everything from cell phones to guided missiles and smart bombs. ...
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts, with Jordy Lee
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts, with Jordy Lee. In this episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jordy Lee, a senior research associate at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Lee …
Digging into the VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF
VanEck's Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF, despite production disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic, has risen 38% so far in 2021 (through 19 February). The fund had a strong performance last year when it opened 2020 at $40.86 before closing at $65.82 on 31 December. The VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF has total net assets ...
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Not So "Green" Technology: The Complicated Legacy of Rare Earth …
For every ton of rare earth produced, the mining process yields 13kg of dust, 9,600-12,000 cubic meters of waste gas, 75 cubic meters of wastewater, and one ton of radioactive residue. This stems from the fact that rare earth element ores have metals that, when mixed with leaching pond chemicals, contaminate air, water, and soil.
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts 12/22/2020
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Jordy Lee is interviewed on this podcast regarding his research of rare earth minerals, a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are durable, have a variety of modern uses, and are essential components of many renewable technologies.
Digging for Rare Earths: The Mines Where iPhones Are Born
The rare-earth mineral mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., run by Molycorp. (Credit: Jay Greene/CNET) MOUNTAIN PASS, Calif. -- About 60 miles southwest of Las Vegas, in a mine some 500 feet deep, the ...
Digging in on rare earth, the next front in the US supply …
Digging in on rare earth, the next front in the US supply chain war with China US scrambling to close the gap with China, which dominates the mining and refining of these essential materials for...
Rare earths processor buys rights to mine in Greenland
Updated: Aug 23, 2022 / 08:27 AM EDT. BEIJING (AP) — One of the world's few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and green technologies. Rare earths are a group of minerals used in the manufacture of electric ...
Rare earths processor buys rights to mine in Greenland
Rare earths are a group of minerals used in the manufacture of electric vehicles, wind turbines, electronics, robots and other machinery. China currently dominates global production, processing about 85% of the world's rare earths, but skyrocketing demand is pushing companies to look for other sources.. Toronto-based Neo Performance Materials, the rare …
Digging deeper into the U.S.'s only rare earths mine - YouTube
Put on your hard hat and get ready to dig deeper into the only rare earths mine in the U.S. -- now thrown into the midst of the trade war with China. CNN's C...