Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Rare-earth minerals found in Japan in a 'semi-infinite' deposit
Jeremy Berke recently reported on this at BusinessInsider.com:
"The newly discovered deposit is enough to 'supply these metals on a semi-infinite basis to the world,' the study's authors wrote in the study.
There's enough yttrium to meet the global demand for 780 years, dysprosium for 730 years, europium for 620 years, and terbium for 420 years.
The cache lies off of Minamitori Island, about 1,150 miles southeast of Tokyo. It's within Japan's exclusive economic zone, so the island nation has the sole rights to the resources there. "
