China alone accounts for 97 percent of the rare earth metal market.
And some colleagues who intend to start producing 60 tonnes a year of a rare earth metal when then current market is perhaps 5.
Neodymium is a rare earth metal used extensively to produce permanent magnets found in everything from computer hard disks and cell phones to wind turbines and cars.
Exactly what is a rare earth metal is very slightly arguable, some would say it is only the lanthanides, lanthanum, cerium through to lutetium in that little box at the bottom of the periodic table.
The threads running through all of this are price and scarcity: a price to signal the relative scarcity of a good such as a rare-earth metal, and that relative scarcity in turn to stimulate innovation.
Feng shui balances the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water to create positive energy, and these elements can be seen throughout the theme park.
In the commodity world the momentum has been found in such areas as rare earth, precious metal, coals and uranium however the steel names have not performed as one would expect.
The Environment Agency scheme includes a combination of hard defences, reinforced concrete walls with sheet metal cores and earth embankments.
At the inn, soft lighting, dark wood, earth-toned upholstery and beaten metal adorn the guest rooms, lobby and bar area, while the pockmarked cement in the front entryway emulates ancient flagstone.
Pile: long heavy section of timber, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or seabed as support for another structure.
So it is funding research into getting microorganisms to extract energy from things like metal ions abundant in the earth or solar electricity.
This tasty narrative premise is quickly abandoned for two and a half hours of disconnected drivel when the enemy Decepticons invade Chicago, and the Autobots, well-intentioned metal dunderheads who reside on Earth to protect humankind, save the day with help from Sam (LaBeouf).
Curiosity will likely drill a number of shallow test holes, using the tailings to scrub the metal bit of any contaminants carried from Earth.
On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.
But the fact that rocky planets can take shape around metal-poor stars means the first roughly Earth-like worlds may have formed long, long ago.
In October 1957 the Soviets managed to hoist a 184-pound hunk of metal with a radio transmitter into orbit around the Earth.
Such concentrations are usually created by geological events, such as volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts that steer hot metal-bearing fluids into upper, accessible parts of the Earth's crust, erosion, or massive sedimentary movements.
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