Icymi: A Massive, 'Semi-Infinite' Trove Of Rare-Earth Metals Has Been Flora Inwards Japan

"...Words similar 'uranium', 'rare earths', etc. appear to live magic to

 those unsuspecting who are ofttimes fleeced..."

Gerald M. Loeb

The Battle for Investment Survival

Simon & Schuster, 1935

This tidings volition non live welcome inwards the corridors of mightiness inwards Beijing. Or Inner Mongolia.*
From CNBC:

• Researchers accept industrial plant life hundreds of years' worth of rare-earth materials underneath Japanese waters — plenty to render to the populace on a "semi-infinite basis," according to a written report published inwards Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports.
• Rare-earth metals are crucial inwards the making of high-tech products such every bit electrical vehicles together with batteries, together with most of the populace has relied on Red People's Republic of China for close all of its needs.

Researchers accept industrial plant life hundreds of years' worth of critical rare-earth metals beneath Japanese waters — plenty to render to the populace on a "semi-infinite basis," according to a written report published on Tuesday.

MORE *Baotou, Inner Mongolia is in all probability the most polluted house on earth, all inwards service of keeping our iPhones together with other shiny objects flowing from the factories.

Our one-time pal, Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare populace Hi-Tech Company Ltd. (now renamed Red People's Republic of China Northern Rare populace [Group] High-tech Co, Ltd), 600111:Shanghai exchange, is the largest producer inwards the world's largest producing nation. Rare Earths are solely rare to the extent the Chinese authorities allows CNREHTCL to unloosen production to the remainder of the world.

H5N1 regain of the magnitude Nihon is claiming changes geopolitics, non simply the availability (more together with hence than price) of electronic stuff.

We've been doing this rare soil activity for a while. Here's Oct 2010's "'Japan Scrambles for Rare Earth; (AVL.TO; LYC.AX; MCP) 600111: Shanghai"