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US digging through waste to uncover rare earths

Ana Komnenic | July 22, 2013 | 3:32 am Battery Metals China Europe Rare Earth 

The US government not only wants to wean itself off foreign oil supply but also rare earth supply and the secret may lie in old mines' tailings deposits, the Associated Press reports. The US Geological Survey (USGS) has been tasked...

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