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Because of the lack of supply concerns, companies in China have no such reservations. This so called “innovation distortion” in the West and Japan make it possible for other companies, such as those in China, to develop better products. #sciencematters

No need to find alternatives. According to the Global Wind Energy Council, in an attempt to seek alternatives to rare earth metals, companies in the West and in Japan are spending millions to remove rare earth elements from green products. #sciencematters

This is a good article, but the US has plenty of rare earths - including the heavy rare earths - in phosphate fertilizer waste products and coal ash. No need to wait. There is technology today that can recover REEs from wastes. See periodicproducts.com @periodicpro

There is a new technology to both clean up these tailing ponds and recover rare earths from already mined phosphate fertilizer waste products and coal ash ponds. Check out periodicproducts.com. #sciencematters

The heavy rare earths are found in monazite, xenotime, and certain clays, not bastnasite. The profit margins mining light rare earths are small and easily evaporate with low-cost imported REEs. Just look at the history of this mine when Molycorp owned it. #Sciencematters

This story is missing several key facts. This mine is a bastnasite deposit. It does not contain the heavy rare earths used for TV and computer displays, lasers, solid state electronics, sonar systems, dysprosium high power magnets, fiber optics, superconductors, and LEDs.