Pentagon Seeks Microbe Miners To Reduce Rare Earth Reliance On China
A new report from the USGS documents REE deposits in 13 more states, and India, Australia and Canada are preparing to get into the rare earths small business much more heavily. Provided their name, rare earth elements, and the reality that China controls 96 % of REE production, you could feel the Chinese had won some geologic lottery. But these metallic substances—elements 57 to 71 on the periodic table, plus scandium and yttrium—are not all that uncommon. It really is…