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Japan just found a ‘semi-infinite’ deposit of rare-earth minerals — and it could be (trunc)
Business Insider ^ | April 13, 2018 | Jeremy Berke

Posted on 04/15/2018 8:39:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers

Researchers have found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a new study.

The study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, says the deposit contains 16 million tons of the valuable metals.

Rare-earth minerals are used in everything from smartphone batteries to electric vehicles. By definition, these minerals contain one or more of 17 metallic rare-earth elements (for those familiar with the periodic table, those are on the second row from the bottom).

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 1993; 199309; batteries; china; clinton; dysprosium; europium; japan; marcusisland; metal; minamitori; minamitoriisland; mjga; niobium; rareearth; rareearthmaterials; rareearthminerals; rareearths; ree; rees; russia; terbium; yttrium
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To: grey_whiskers

Also known as Marcus Island


21 posted on 04/15/2018 9:56:09 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: PGR88

Marcus Island area


22 posted on 04/15/2018 9:56:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: PGR88

How the hell did they find these at the bottom of the ocean 1150 miles from shore?

...

They started looking around volcanic vents.


23 posted on 04/15/2018 9:57:17 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: grey_whiskers

It looks like they found these deposits a few years ago. This new information is a scientific study of how much is there.


24 posted on 04/15/2018 9:59:00 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Find is in ocean floor mud, 5500 feet down, 160 miles south of what we used to call Marcus island, about halfway between Wake and Tokyo. Clinton gave Marcus back to Japan Sep. 1993, probably thinking the 300 acre island wasn’t worth much. If this can be extracted from a mile down in mid ocean it should make the geologists very curious about where else similar deposits can be found. Also, once they figure out how to mine it look for Chicom financed greenies to oppose it!


25 posted on 04/15/2018 10:19:16 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: PGR88
They sent a trained whale down.
26 posted on 04/15/2018 10:21:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: grey_whiskers

US Space command has the capability to see below the earths crust with different platforms as well as track all mil movement and communications and financial transactions....


27 posted on 04/15/2018 10:25:14 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: PGR88
Probably found it while they were chasing after that big ugly a$$ over grown lizard with the bad breath who stomps Tokyo into dust every once and a while.
28 posted on 04/15/2018 10:37:16 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: grey_whiskers

A cynic would say this attack on Syria was just to demo more weapons for sale ( especially since the attack apparently didn’t even include destroying hezballah )


29 posted on 04/15/2018 10:37:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: grey_whiskers

Rare earths aren’t rare, the cost is in extracting and purifying them.


30 posted on 04/15/2018 10:56:06 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: grey_whiskers

As noted by others, rare earth elements are not exactly rare. The Chinese have currently captured the market by selling below the cost of extraction. http://trib.com/news/local/casper/proposed-rare-earth-mine-suspended-indefinitely/article_cb93d6ba-4c33-5f9b-80e3-fd716a5bfb72.html


31 posted on 04/15/2018 11:12:22 PM PDT by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Hahaha


32 posted on 04/15/2018 11:36:30 PM PDT by thinden
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Clinton gave Marcus back to Japan Sep. 1993, probably thinking the 300 acre island wasn’t worth much.


Maybe the 300 acre island wasn’t worth much, but the 200 mile economic zone around it was worth plenty.

I wonder how much the Clintons got paid.


33 posted on 04/15/2018 11:52:51 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Paladin2

Rare Earth - Get Ready (1970 original album version)

https://bit.ly/1NjEtZ0


34 posted on 04/15/2018 11:53:13 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: grey_whiskers

Soon to be claimed by China.


35 posted on 04/16/2018 12:10:39 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Clinton finalized the turn-over in 1993, but the island was first turned over by the Lyndon Johnson administration in June of 1968. Not only that, but the United States had historical claims to the island that pre-dated the Japanese claims!

Johnson has to have been one of the worst American presidents, ever.


36 posted on 04/16/2018 12:11:04 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain
The last four Democrat Presidents have been LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barak Obama

It really is hard to determine just which one was the most destructive to America because they all did such a through job of trying to destroy our country.

37 posted on 04/16/2018 12:46:43 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: TaMoDee

My wife grew up there. Went by there 20 years ago the only thing left were empty streets with bare foundations and a school building.


38 posted on 04/16/2018 1:26:06 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“They sent a trained whale down.

And then ate it.


39 posted on 04/16/2018 2:13:27 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Paladin2

Glomar Explorer?


40 posted on 04/16/2018 2:14:51 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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