[Tainan]

I seem to remember an article a few months back about Japan discovering a mother lode of rare earth minerals in an area of their territorial sea beds. And the kicker was that the technology to easily recover these rare earth deposits was already in use.

Anyone else remember this?

[2ndDivisionVet]

From what I’m reading they’re all over, but only China has the processes and the will to use the toxic chemicals to leech them out. That’s why they control 95% of them, not geography so much. We have BANANA, which took the place of NIMBY.

[Neidermeyer]

http://japandailypress.com/japan-finds-rare-earth-deposits-in-pacific-seabed-2125598/

Japanese researchers revealed on Thursday that they have discovered a possible rich source of rare earths on the Pacific seabed. The data they recovered suggests that the deposits could be 30 times better than China’s reserves, currently the source of 90% of the world’s supply of rare earths.

[Balding_Eagle]

Here you go: “Japanese scientists have found vast reserves of rare earth metals on the Pacific seabed” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000427/posts