Honda Motor, for instance, said it would start recycling rare earth metals from used batteries.
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Examples discussed included export restrictions in China on rare earth metals and in Indonesia on palm oil.
Rare earth metals are a key component of products such as MRI scanners and computer hard drives.
Idaho also boasts a large vein deposit of thorium and rare earth metals.
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Which is fine, there could be a shortage of rare earth metals.
For example, we know very well that it is possible to extract the rare earth metals from the wastes of alumina production.
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So if someone calls you up and suggests that you might like to invest a bit in physical quantities of rare earth metals.
For the thing is, rare earth metals, actual physical stocks of them, are an incredibly bad thing for retail investors to be trying to invest in.
China produces some 90% of the global supply of rare earth metals today, but sits atop only about half of the world's estimated reserves of the elements.
As it says over there in the sidebar my day job involves dealing with one of the rare earth metals and one of my suppliers is in Russia.
He was questioned on the mining and future availability of metals such as cobalt, platinum and titanium, as well as so-called "rare earth metals" which as used in magnets and nanotechnology.
Also present in the region are lithium, vanadium, and rare-earth metals, not to mention a potential for uranium and diamonds.
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Asteroids could yield precious minerals such as gold, platinum and rare-Earth metals.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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Specialty metals include metals like rare earth elements, which are being used more often in applications such as consumer electronics, solar panels and magnets used to power hybrid vehicles.
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That is, either the mixed rare earth concentrates or as the separated individual salts or metals of the rare earths.
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Rare earth elements are a group of 17 heavy metals, which despite their name, are not particularly rare.
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Recycling hazardous electronic equipment for material recovery (e.g. rare earth, and precious and other metals) in a manner which can substantially mitigate the hazards, entails significant costs.
Metals, platinum-group elements, rare earth elements, and other volatiles, like H, H2O, and carbon compounds, are abundant on asteroids, many of which are relatively accessible from Earth.
Information provided by Metal Pages, a news site that focuses on non-ferrous metals, ferro alloys and rare earths, indicated that rare earth elements exports have dropped 65% in 2011 and that China has only exported 11, 000 metric tons of rare earths through the first three quarters of the year.
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