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Deep sea mud is rich in rare earth elements

Michael Allan McCrae | July 04, 2011 | 5:38 am Battery Metals Asia Rare Earth 

A team of Japanese scientists have found large quantities of rare earth minerals on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. In a Nature Geoscience article published on Monday, the team said that it looked at 78 sites throughout the eastern...

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