The main issue with rare earths is extracting them. It’s very polluting and labor intensive.
China sells them so cheap it doesn’t make economic sense for most countries to extract them, but there are locations with high concentrations all over the world.
The main issue with rare earths is extracting them. It’s very polluting and labor intensive.
China sells them so cheap it doesn’t make economic sense for most countries to extract them, but there are locations with high concentrations all over the world.
Yup, very few rare earth metals are actually rare in absolute terms. Most deposits simply aren’t worth the trouble.