Understanding Uncommon Earth Materials
History may well not be repeating precisely but the foundations are becoming laid for the improvement of new rare earth mines and the much more technically challenge organization of processing outside China. The nature of most rare earth deposits is that they include a mix of the 17 elements categorized as rare earths, a misnomer as they are neither uncommon nor earths just technically tough to separate into a usable kind. China’s threat to limit the export of uncommon earths…