What you need to know about rare earths Rare earths could be the next front in the US-China trade war.
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To shed light on how super-Earths might form, scientists looked at stars that host super-Earths to see how many also possessed Jupiter-like worlds.
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A 2010 ban on the export of rare earths was presented as an internal policy decision aimed at controlling China's notoriously free-wheeling rare earths sector.
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Broken down by country, we would need 5.4 Earths if the world's population lived like Australia, and 4.8 Earths if the world lived like the United States.
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That relatively small financial figure dramatically understates our dependence on rare earths because we also import billions of dollars worth of electronic products that contain rare earths.
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An article on Saturday about the television series "Crisis on Infinite Earths" misstated when The Flash and Supergirl died in the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book.
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However, the researchers found that Jupiter-like planets are apparently not less common around stars hosting super-Earths than they are stars without super-Earths, but more common.
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Heavy rare earths, which include yttrium, a silvery metal used in superconductors and in medicine, are one of two rare earth categories, the other being light rare earths.
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One reason for the concerted push for the renewed production of rare earths is the fact that China is by far the world's largest refiner of rare earths.
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"Electric vehicle manufacturers are looking for security of supply of the heavy rare earths as well as on the light rare earths and this provides that opportunity," she said.
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That means that there are an infinite number of planet Earths exactly like ours and there are also an infinite number of planet Earths that are nothing like ours.
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A high-profile Xi visit to a rare earths magnet plant reminded observers of China's cutoff of rare earths to Japan in a 2010 confrontation, reports Foreign Policy's Keith Johnson.
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Operators in the sector include Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd .
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Another one is ... You mentioned rare earths earlier, right?
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Australia's Lynas, the world's biggest rare earths producer outside of China, has a preliminary agreement with Blue Line of the United States to build a heavy rare earths processing plant in Texas.
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The report did not specify which of the 17 rare earths would be traded in Ganzhou, which is known for its high concentration of heavy rare earths such as terbium and dysprosium.
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Technology metals or rare earths are expected to be a focus area for Noble Holdings, which took a small stake in ambitious Australian rare earths developer Arafura Resources via Talaxis this year.
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Technology metals or rare earths are expected to be a focus area for Noble Holdings, which through its subsidiary took a small stake in ambitious Australian rare earths developer Arafura Resources this year.
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Outside the main index, rare earths developer Arafura Resources rose nearly 8.1% after it said it struck a preliminary deal with a U.S. company for the latter to process its rare earths product.
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A visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in May to a rare earths plant fueled the speculation that China would use its dominant position in rare earths as leverage in the trade war.
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China extracted 70% of the world's rare earths in 2018.
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RARE EARTHS: The tariffs did not include rare earth elements.
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More often, rare earths are dispersed at vanishingly low concentrations.
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The question is not whether the seafloor has rare earths.
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It has about a 14 percent the gravity of Earths.
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Chinese companies have also made moves into rare earths overseas.
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HOW HAVE RARE EARTHS PRICES REACTED TO THE RISING TENSIONS?
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Mining the rare earths is only part of the equation.
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Also joining him in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover?
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Earths might even be common in our own solar system.
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The investment is its second into a rare earths project.
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Wang reiterated that China is willing to meet demand for rare earths from other countries, but it would be unacceptable if some nations used Chinese rare earths to create products that limited China's development.
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Xi's visit to a rare earths plant last month sparked speculation that China would use its dominant position as an exporter of rare earths to the United States as leverage in the trade war.
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China began seizing control of the market in rare earths in the mid-1980s, and many experts today estimate that China controls anywhere from 90 to 95 percent of the supply of rare earths.
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Outside the main index, rare earths developer Arafura Resources Ltd ended up 3.5% after it said it struck a preliminary deal with a U.S. company for the latter to process its rare earths product.
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The Critical Materials Institute and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have generated new permanent magnet designs containing zero rare earths and iron-nickel alloys to replace key rare earths such as dysprosium respectively.
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That sent the price of neodymium and other rare earths soaring.
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China's monopoly on rare earths is also not what it seems.
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These days it can hold about one and a half Earths.
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Rare earths, and NdPr in particular, look set for a comeback.
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This is why rare earths now figure in the trade war.
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It is big enough that 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.
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On Monday, Xi toured a Chinese company specializing in rare earths.
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That's because lithium-ion batteries rely on rare earths like cobalt.
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Except something else has changed since the last rare earths war.
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As a major electronics manufacturer, Japan needs rare earths for components.
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In fact, according to Mysterio, there are tons of other Earths.
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The list included rare earths metals, lithium, graphite and other minerals.
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It is hard to go a day without using rare earths.
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Is there a way to solve this crisis on infinite Earths?
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Super-Earths typically form near the snowline, but not beyond it.
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Less than 1 percent of all rare earths consumed are recycled.
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Venus enters fellow Earths sign Taurus today, bringing you lucky vibes.
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The United States imports 80% of its rare earths from China.
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President Xi Jinping toured a rare earths facility this weekend, in what was perceived by political analysts as a subtle reminder of China's outsized role in rare earths exports, in which it is the world's largest.
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By 2025, China is expected to be net importer of rare earths, a factor that may lead Beijing to hesitate to drive up global prices or set a precedent of using rare earths as a political tool.
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President Xi Jinping's visit to a rare earths plant last week had sparked speculation that China would use its dominant position as an exporter of rare earths to the United States as leverage in the trade war.
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And there are plenty of empty super-Earths to pillage for resources.
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Weakness in strength Despite their name, rare earths are not that rare.
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This massive, hurricane-like weather pattern could fit three Earths inside it.
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Fresnillo advanced 2.1% and African venture Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd surged 11%.
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And yet after we use rare earths once, we discard them. Why?
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California's Mountain Pass mine is the only operating U.S. rare earths facility.
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Rare earths are also mined in Australia, Brazil, India, Russia and Vietnam.
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Are we not all, as we proceed through our lives, solitary Earths?
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Three Japanese companies dominate the business of turning rare earths into magnets.
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China's dominant position in the materials market extends well beyond rare earths.
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They've discovered Super-Earths, or planets larger than the size of Earth.
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In June, China more than doubled tariffs on U.S. rare earths imports.
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"(Magnet-related rare earths) are the ideal materials to weaponise ... because they are so critical to high-demand, highly-competitive, price-sensitive industries," said Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, a consultancy that tracks rare earths markets.
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Rainbow Rare Earths began operating in Burundi in 2017 and has an offtake agreement with ThyssenKrupp AG. China dominates global processing capacity for rare earths, with Australia's Lynas Corp the only non-Chinese company with any significant capacity.
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"(Magnet-related rare earths) are the ideal materials to weaponize ... because they are so critical to high-demand, highly-competitive, price-sensitive industries," said Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, a consultancy that tracks rare earths markets.
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China is willing to meet reasonable demand for rare earths from other countries, but it would be unacceptable that countries using Chinese rare earths to manufacture products would turn around and suppress China, its commerce ministry said last week.
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" China's apparent ability to force concessions through its rare earths monopoly was greeted with widespread alarm, including in Washington, where a Congressional hearing was held to discuss "China's monopoly on rare earths: Implications for US foreign and security policy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to meet reasonable demand for rare earths from other countries, but it would be unacceptable that countries using Chinese rare earths to manufacture products would turn around and suppress China, its commerce ministry said.
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The duration of these microlensing events correlates to the mass of the object, with lensing of Earths and super-Earths lasting for only a few hours, Jupiter-mass worlds lasting one to two days, and stars lasting several days.
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Rare earths are contained in everything from iPhones to wind turbines to Teslas.
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Previous research suggests that super-Earths are the most common type of planet .
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Australia's rare earths miners also rose against the backdrop of the trade war.
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The most powerful commercial magnets, by contrast, contain elements known as rare earths.
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Rare earths, covering 17 elements on the periodic table, are in fact common.
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Today, it can meet nearly a third of Japanese demand for rare earths.
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We don't mine rare earths because it's easy, but because we need them.
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Chinese firms are interested in mining zinc, uranium and rare earths in Greenland.
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Because Sunday is also the beginning of the CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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Multiple versions of heroes were having adventures in multiple timelines on multiple Earths.
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Some predicted a rocky core, perhaps the size of Earth or several Earths.
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There are, for instance, lots of super-Earths and lots of mini-Neptunes.
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China also mines about 70 percent of the world's supply of rare earths.
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BEIJING, May 30 (Reuters) - China is willing to meet reasonable demand for rare earths from other countries, but it would be unacceptable that countries using Chinese rare earths to manufacture products would turn around and suppress China, its commerce ministry said.
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RARE EARTHS: The U.S. Defense Department is seeking new federal funds to bolster domestic production of rare earth minerals and reduce dependence on China as media reports said Beijing was standing ready to use rare earths to strike back at Washington.
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After talks broke down in May, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a rare earths plant, sparking speculation that China would use its dominant position as an exporter of rare earths to the United States as leverage in the trade dispute.
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While Australia-based Lynas cannot match China's rare earths processing capability, it is hoping that its role as the largest rare earths miner and the largest processor outside of China will help it forge new relationships and fuel expansion projects.
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They also compared the prevalence of Jupiter-like worlds around systems without super-Earths.
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One of the new planets might have a mass as low as 1.7 Earths.
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Heavy rare earths are vital to the production of smartphones, tablets and smart speakers.
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The U.S. only imported about 4,000 tons of rare earths, worth about $175 million.
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China's sway in the rare earths market is a fairly recent state of affairs.
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The U.S. pales in comparison, mining 15,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2018.
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The moment it costs less to extract those rare earths, that dirt becomes ore.
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Fresnillo eked out slight gains, while African venture Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd surged 26%.
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It's not a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style condensation into one timeline and continuity.
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In addition to the national security concerns, rare earths are vital to our economy.
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The Moon enters Earths sign Virgo tonight, illuminating the relationship sector of your chart.
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Indeed, in a sector such as rare earths, it's just about the only supplier.
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So far, the U.S. government has exempted rare earths from tariffs on Chinese goods.
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The appetite in the United States for products that include rare earths is enormous.
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Australia is host to the largest rare earths producer outside China, Lynas Corp (LYC.AX).
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A few of the new super-Earths were among the closest exoplanets ever found.
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And the hexagon is larger than it looks -- four Earths could fit inside it.
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Australia is host to the largest rare earths producer outside China, Lynas Corp (LYC.AX).
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A handful of recent discoveries shows that Earths could be common in the universe.
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Rare earths — minerals found in a wide range of everyday consumer electronics — hit the headlines over the past week as China hinted at stopping the export of rare earths to the U.S., after Washington increased tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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In return, Beijing raised tariffs on $60 billion of American goods and threatened to stop exporting rare earths to the U.S. China is the world's leading producer of rare earths, which are a group of 17 minerals produced in fairly scarce quantities.
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Flashback: The U.S. hasn't invested in domestic rare earths since developing the atomic bomb during World War II. Worth noting: In 2010, China stopped exporting rare earths to Japan after it arrested a Chinese fishing trawler captain for fishing in Japanese waters.
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Lynas Corp, the world's only major rare earths producer outside China, jumped 9.3% and was the top gainer in the ASX benchmark after Reuters reported that the U.S. Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities in the United States.
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Elsewhere, Lynas Corp, the world's only major rare earths producer outside China, jumped 9.7% and was the top gainer on the ASX benchmark, after Reuters reported that the U.S. Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities in the United States.
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Shares in several companies that mine and process rare earths have spiked in recent days.
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S. trade tensions that have stoked concerns that Beijing could curb rare earths exports again.
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Its Malaysian rare earths processing plant's license is set to be extended, sources told Reuters.
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Unlike enormous gas giants and super-Earths, moons tend to be on the smallish side.
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The rare earths export restriction looks to be an act of saber rattling for now.
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Neodymium is one of the most recognizable rare earths, as it's widely used in magnets.
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Rare earths are a group of minerals used in products raning from smartphones to cars.
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Other commodities have seen similar excitement about the future, such as uranium and rare earths.
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Shares of Lynas, the largest producer of rare earths outside of China, also jumped 7.87%.
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Before the discovery of super-Earths, Earth was considered to be the largest rocky planet.
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That's pretty far, a distance greater than eight Earths stacked on top of one another.
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So tiny, in fact, that more than one million Earths could fit inside the sun.
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Too little or, as turned out to be the case with rare earths, too much?
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Rare earths are specialty metals used in everything from ceramics to magnets and consumer electronics.
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Jupiter's auroras, like everything else there, are vastly larger, about as wide as five Earths.
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China's dominance of markets for critical minerals, including rare earths and tungsten, proves that point.
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Chinese state media has warned that Beijing could use rare earths for its next strike.
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China has used its control of rare earths to try to get its way before.
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Rare earths are also mined in India, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Estonia, Malaysia and Brazil.
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Mr. Xi did not threaten to block supplies of rare earths to the United States.
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The CW&aposs highly-anticipated Arrowverse crossover, titled "Crisis on Infinite Earths," began on Sunday.
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Reuters reported last week that the Pentagon is funding construction of rare earths processing facilities.
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The prospects for Australia's rare earths industry are picking up based on growing demand expectations.
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Eugene Gholz, who has advised the US government on rare earths, wrote in a report for the Council on Foreign Relations that China's leverage over the rare earths market peaked in 2010 and even then it had been difficult to exploit in Beijing's favor.
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China supplied 210% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017.
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This famous planet is huge—so big, in fact, that it could easily hold 1,300 Earths.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Beijing is limiting its output of rare earths, according to Adamas Intelligence.
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China supplied 226.5% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 220 to 23.
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Rare earths are 5.7 minerals with magnetic and conductive properties that help power most electronic devices.
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The problem is most of the rare earths we import are embedded already in the technology.
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China produced about 78% of rare earths in 2018, and owns about 40% of global resources.
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The rare earths industry is still recovering its bubble, Lynas's managing director Amanda Lacaze tells CNBC.
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Pour a million Earths into a hallowed out Sun, and you'd still have room for more.
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That would set back China's grand strategy for rare earths, seen in the hills around Ganzhou.
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China doesn't dominate this industry because it has unusually large deposits of rare earths; it doesn't.
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A sunspot on the right side of the sun that could fit five Earths within it.
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The Lynas processing plant in Malaysia refines ore from a rare earths mine in Western Australia.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to a rare earths plant last month helped trigger the speculation.
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S. trade tensions that have stoked concerns that major producer China could stem rare earths exports.
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The Pentagon said the latest report was a Defense Production Act III rare earths mineral report.
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China provides about 90 percent of rare earths, which are used in aviation and defense manufacturing.
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All that extra mass is what researchers think could really make super-Earths the perfect home.
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Rare earths, like vanadium, were already showing early signs of embarking on a bull price run.
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China supplied 22% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 25 to 22.
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Of these, officials anticipate, 300 will be Earth-size exoplanets or double-Earth-size Super Earths.
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The outbreak has also hit consumption of rare earths at magnet and catalyst manufacturers, Merriman said.
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The outbreak has also hit consumption of rare earths at magnet and catalyst manufacturers, Merriman said.
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Somebody save us from the biggest "Crisis on Infinite Earths" news that has just come in.
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Apple declined to name the supplier or say what products the rare earths were recovered from.
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Of these, officials anticipate, 300 will be Earth-size exoplanets or double-Earth-size super Earths.
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Australia is also a key potential partner, particularly in the rare earths sector, where Lynas Corp.
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It supplied 80% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corporation shares slipped late in the session to close 0.7% in the red after three consecutive sessions of gains on expectations of increased U.S. demand after Chinese media said Beijing might shut off its supply of rare earths to the United States.
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Three super-Earths and a planet that shouldn&apost existThree of the six new planets are rocky super-Earths (planets larger than Earth but not large enough to be Neptune-like), which could be the remaining cores of once-giant planets that crossed the Neptunian desert.
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"You suggested that rare earths could become one of China's countermeasures against the U.S.'s unwarranted suppression...What can I tell you is that if anyone were to use products that are made with the rare earths that we export to curb the development of China, then the people of [south Jiangxi province where rare earths are mined] as well as all the rest of the Chinese people would be unhappy," said the Chinese official, in an interview.
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However, a global economic slowdown and China's easing of export restrictions sent prices for rare earths tumbling.
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This is the only mine in the country devoted to rare earths, elements essential to modern electronics.
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Rare earths refer to 17 minerals with magnetic and conductive properties that help power most electronic devices.
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Carmakers have for years used rare earths such as neodymium in the motors that power electric cars.
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China's top economic planning agency indicated the country may be poised to curb exports of rare earths.
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On a visit to Jiangxi province in May, Xi described rare earths as an important strategic resource.
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This 300-year-old storm used to be huge—so big it could hold nearly four Earths.
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In June, China more than doubled tariffs on U.S. rare earths imports for refining to 25 percent.
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" On the subject of rare earths, the analyst said the minerals are "actually found in many places.
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China is a major producer of rare earths, which are used widely in electronics and military equipment.
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But the most important factor is also the simplest to explain: rare earths just aren't that rare.
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The government plans to invest in a laboratory to support rare earths miners with research, Sindayigaya said.
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Once you've done that, you can theoretically just extract each of the different metals, including rare earths.
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China accounts for 80% of the global supply of rare earths, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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It also has hinted that it will limit its supply of rare earths to the United States.
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Rare earths, for example, are not rare—one of them, cerium, is almost as common as zinc.
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In 2010 China drastically cut its export quotas for rare earths, leaving the world scrambling for alternatives.
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The document does not directly promise loans, grants or other financial support to U.S. rare earths projects.
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Lynas has been processing rare earths in Malaysia mined from Mount Weld in Western Australia since 2012.
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South Korea would also reap a windfall in reserves of rare earths, which are used in electronics.
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Most mining companies outside China avoid the expensive and dirty processing operations necessary to extract rare earths.
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Saturn is thought to have a rocky core perhaps as massive as Earth or perhaps several Earths.
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Planets two to four times Earth's size, nicknamed super-Earths, or sometimes mini-Neptunes, are especially debated.
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The same thing will happen to other Earths if the superheroes aren't able to act quickly enough.
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China should also work out a list of foreign end-users of Chinese rare earths, it added.
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This time, however, the impact of any block on rare earths may be far less clear cut.
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Meanwhile, Malaysia licence win helped earths explorer Lynas Corp snap three sessions of losses and climb 5%.
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Per Chapek, the structure that houses the "storytelling coaster" could fit four Spaceship Earths inside of it.
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Super-Earths have a mass greater than Earth's but aren't as big as other giant, gaseous planets.
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Being the only proven rare earths miner outside China, Lynas stands to gain from the Sino-U.
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The United States does have a rare earths mine in the form of Mountain Pass in California.
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China accounts for roughly 21.3% of U.S. rare earths supply which are essential for high-tech goods.
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"Developing a robust and resilient critical minerals and Rare Earths industry is a priority for the Australian Government and Lynas is in a unique position to contribute to this as we are the only significant Rare Earths producer outside China," Chief Executive Officer Amanda Lacaze said in a statement.
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Adding the Keck and Kepler data together shows the distinction between mini-Neptunes and super-Earths quite clearly.
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That means the U.S. spent only a "modest" $160 million in 2018 to import rare earths for manufacturing.
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While sunspots are often pretty large, this one captured by ALMA could fit roughly two Earths in it.
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If we continue on this unsustainable path, by 2050, we will likely need more than three planet earths.
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Super-Earths are planets larger than Earth that can reach up to 10 times this planet&aposs mass.
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Stocks of companies that sell rare earths, minerals that are widely used in the tech industry, dropped sharply.
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Here's what you need to know about rare earths, and how they could play into the trade fight.
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China is a key supplier of minor metals and rare earths used in consumer electronics and other goods.
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Although, of course, rare earths, in addition to diversification, have the advantage ... I am talking about electric cars.
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The most common in Kepler's data are "super-Earths"—rocky worlds intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune.
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But few have been as spectacular as that experienced by rare earths at the turn of the decade.
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AX) said on Thursday it would not pursue its proposal to buy rare earths miner Lynas Corp (LYC.AX).
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Meanwhile, consumers of rare earths like Hitachi and Mitsubishi altered their products to use less of each substance.
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The country's only functioning rare-earths mine, Mountain Pass in California, went bankrupt in 2015 as prices plunged.
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They have yet to weaken China's power, especially over rare earths, and global trade tensions aggravate the problem.
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Rare earths are also needed for commercial products such as batteries for electric vehicles and other advanced technologies.
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Tesla Motors, for example, briefly turned to engines that don't use rare earths after the 2010 price surge.
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Just listing the major ones — the Frozen Planets, the Blue Planets, the Planet Earths — would be a stretch.
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China said at the time it would ban imports of gold and rare earths, as well as coal.
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Since then, further research has indicated that the Milky Way could harbor as many as 10 billion Earths.
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Lynas Corp lost 5.6% on media reports that suitor Wesfarmers would not hike its takeover offer for the rare earths miner, whose shares had surged 54% in May amid speculation that Beijing is planning to restrict supplies of rare earths to gain leverage in its trade war with United States.
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Based on current consumption, we are using the production equivalent of 1.6 planet earths to meet our economic needs.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping even paid a personal visit to one of the country's high-tech rare earths processors.
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Earlier this year, rare earths narrowly avoided being included on a new list of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
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In the original $200 billion proposed tranche of Chinese tariffs, neodymium and other rare earths were on that list.
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China is the biggest supplier of rare-earths and it has previously hinted at limiting supply of these materials.
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The Trump administration has labeled rare earths critical for national defense and ordered the Pentagon to support domestic production.
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Rare earths are elements used in production in industries such as renewable energy technology, oil refinery, electronics and glass.
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The firm announced later on Wednesday it would expand its business in rare earths and metals via two subsidiaries.
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Experts are split on whether Beijing's rare earths threat could be a game changer in the ongoing trade war.
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Days after the Huawei ban Xi Jinping, China's president, paid a much-publicised visit to a rare-earths facility.
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"The rare earths in 2011 absolutely had a bubble, prices were 10 times what they are today," Lacaze says.
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One Chinese-financed mine in Greenland's south is reckoned to contain the world's second-largest deposits of rare earths.
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"The biggest plant there is actually an iron ore mine which extracts rare earths on the side," says Worstall.
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China, which produces 85% of the world's rare earths, sharply tightened export quotas in 2010 with OPEC-like zeal.
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China was accused in 2012 of manipulating rare earths exports after it put quotas on overseas shipments in 2010.
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Overall, prices for rare earths in China have been falling, said Daniel Morgan an analyst with UBS in Sydney.
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There are similar mines on every continent—cobalt in the Congo, rare Earths in Inner Mongolia, aluminum in Australia.
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The Arrowverse's upcoming crossover, "Crisis on Infinite Earths," is shaping up to be The CW's most ambitious one yet.
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Her company, Lynas Corporation, can provide only a fraction of the minerals — known as rare earths — that China produces.
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Beijing could keep rare earths off the market, depriving many American and European manufacturers of the minerals they need.
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Few alternative suppliers were able to compete with China, which is home to 37% of global rare earths reserves.
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Chinese state media has warned that Beijing could use rare earths for its next strike in the trade war.
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Mining shares settled marginally higher, with gains in gold stocks offsetting losses in iron ore and rare earths miners.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corp saw its best session in more than six weeks on an upbeat quarterly report.
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Astronomers think super-Earths form around the "snowline": the closest distance to a star where water can become ice.
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Australia's the world's largest rare earths miner and processor outside of China, is developing a processing plant in Texas.
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Researchers also discovered several new super-Earths — planets larger than Earth but not large enough to be Neptune-like.
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Lynas, the only major proven producer of rare earths outside China, said it has not received any renewal notification.
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When Beijing slashed shipments in 2010, prices for rare earths jumped, creating an incentive for other countries to increase production.
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The Yale Exoplanet Lab built EXPRES, a spectrometer hooked up to a telescope at Lowell Observatory, to find 100 Earths.
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The dominance of the rare earths' market by the People's Republic encapsulates a lot of what trading partners worry about.
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Few alternative suppliers have been able to compete with China, which is home to 37% of global rare earths reserves.
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This issue has added relevance given that super-Earths, despite their tremendous girth, may be very capable of fostering life.
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China's top economic planning agency this week signaled Beijing's willingness to curb exports of rare earths amid the trade war.
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That means rare earths have the potential to be a powerful bargaining chip in the ongoing US-China trade negotiations.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corporation gained 2.6%, while Northern Minerals and Alkane Resources Ltd were 1.6% and 1.3% higher, respectively.
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However, rare earths miner Lynas Corp jumped as much as 7.1% and was among the top gainers on the benchmark.
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Xi visited a rare earths firm too, sparking speculation the sector could be the next front in the Sino-U.
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Some scientists believe super-Earths have a better chance of being habitable than planets closer to the size of Earth.
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He suggested that China had many countermeasures it could take, including rare earths and against Boeing Co. or U.S. software.
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Chinese newspapers responded on Wednesday with a warning Beijing could use rare earths to strike back at the United States.
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Australia's Lynas Corp is the only significant producer of rare earths outside of China through its processing plant in Malaysia.
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The highest temperatures were consistently over the planet's Great Red Spot, an ever-present storm system larger than two Earths.
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To put our ever-increasing appetite into perspective, we would need 1.6 Earths to meet global demand for renewable resources.
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A flare-up with Japan may have been behind the withholding of rare earths, a key ingredient in tech products.
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So it is no surprise that in the past few weeks China has brandished rare earths as a possible weapon.
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"The goal is not so much to remove rare earths from the mix as to remove everything else," writes Abraham.
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This spot on the planet is a giant spinning storm that used to be able to fit about three Earths.
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If the entire world's population lived like Americans, the organization said, we would need five Earths to meet our demands.
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Over the past decade, an Australian mine owned by Lynas Corporation has also begun producing rare earths at commercial scale.
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Offering some relief, resource stocks inched higher, with rare earths miner Lynas Corp surging 7.1% after an upbeat quarterly report.
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The Pentagon has also held talks with rare earths suppliers in Malawi and Burundi, department officials told Reuters last month.
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Among others, Greenland is also looking at the long-term possibility of mining rare earths and uranium in the south.
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China has already completed similar reforms to the way it taxes coal, natural gas, crude oil, rare earths and others.
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A side-trip to a rare earths plant operated by JL MAG Rare-Earth Co, was for the United States.
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The reopening of the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California last year has done little to reduce that dependency.
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Rare earths are a group of 17 little-known elements, most of them with unpronounceable names like neodymium or ytterbium.
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Rare earths are usually found as a by-product of mining for more widely used minerals such as iron ore.
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"This is hopefully just one of many that we will find — many super-Earths going around dwarf stars," Waldmann said.
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On another Chilean mountaintop, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will search for biosignatures in the atmospheres of rocky super-Earths.
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The United States relies on China for supplies of the rare earths to make a host of high-tech products.
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China was the source of 80 percent of the rare earths imported by the United States between 2014 and 2017.
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The company mines rare earths out of a collapsed volcano in Australia and ships them to Kuantan to be refined.
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Scientists have been looking for traces of water in the atmospheres of rocky super-Earths for years with no luck.
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Malaysia had renewed Lynas' operating license for a rare earths processing plant in August for six months with new conditions.
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Malaysia had renewed Lynas' operating license for a rare earths processing plant in August for six months with new conditions.
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Another obvious example is rare earths, which are a major ingredient in a lot of things, iPhones, semi-conductor chips.
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China was the source of 80 percent of the rare earths imported by the United States between 2014 and 21.43.
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AUSTRALIAN MINISTER SAYS AGREED THAT EACH COUNTRYS EXPORT FINANCE AGENCIES WILL WORK AT FINANCING POTENTIAL CRITICAL MINERALS, RARE EARTHS PROJECTS
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The world's only major rare earths producer outside China said in a statement the tender period was not yet closed.
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Still, Lacaze described the project as a key for Lynas to fill a "gap" in the U.S. rare earths market.
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"We were finding the increase in concentration of rare earths [after treatment] was between 2,000 and 4,000-fold," Ziemkiewicz said.
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Kingsnorth estimates the world will need 75,000 tonnes of rare earths per year to be independent of China by 2025.
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In recent weeks, Beijing has not so subtly floated the possibility of targeting individual U.S. companies and weaponizing rare earths exports.
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That's because it's unlikely China would be able to do much more than restrict supplies of rare earths to U.S. manufacturers.
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The rest of the rare earths industry is dominated by China, where labor costs are cheaper and environmental standards more lax.
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Such a step would have precedence, as China in 2010 culled exports of rare earths to Japan after a diplomatic dispute.
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Mkango Resources is developing a rare earths mine and processing facility in Malawi that is still several years from coming online.
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Rare earths are a group of 17 chemical elements used in products ranging from high-tech consumer electronics to military equipment.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping also took the step of visiting a rare earths company on a recent trip to Jiangxi province.
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Rare earths have been in focus since reports that suggested the minerals could be brought into the U.S.-China trade war.
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One particularly chaotic option would be a ban on the export of rare earths — raw materials that are crucial for electronics.
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Other factors also helped, including lower labor costs and the existence of Chinese mines that produce rare earths as a byproduct.
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Although the mine was closed after Chinese rare earths drove down prices, the facility is intact and resumed production last January.
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The country produced 120,000 metric tons or 70% of total rare earths in 2018, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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In response, Chinese newspapers warned on Wednesday Beijing is ready to use rare earths to strike back at the United States.
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Exports of gold, tin, tungsten, tantalum and rare earths minerals brought in $12.4 million in the past three months, he said.
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Called rare earths, these obscure elements are sprinkled in virtually every consumer electronic, automobile, and green energy product on the market.
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The Moon is in hardworking Earths sign Capricorn today, finding you intent on accomplishing the items on your to-do it.
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Cerium is more abundant than lead, and even the least common rare earths are hundreds of times more plentiful than gold.
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Image: WikimediaBut because of their geochemical properties, rare earths don't tend to form the metal-rich ores that make mining economical.
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For decades, an American company called Molycorp produced most of the world's rare earths, at a mine in Mountain Pass, California.
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"In an economy where the use of rare earths is growing, you cannot recycle your way out of trouble," King said.
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Details: Rare earths are the 17 elements that separate the 21st century from the 20th, and China supplies 80% of them.
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Japan refused to release him, but then China squeezed its exports of rare earths and Tokyo folded just two days later.
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A 90-minute flight, which allows passengers to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the Earths curvature, costs $250,000.
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"No question it's saber rattling," said Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, a consultancy that tracks the rare earths market.
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Located 620 light years away, the system contains five exoplanets, and possibly a sixth, the majority of which are super-Earths.
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The planets, all rocky, range in size from 533 to 44 times the radius of Earth, qualifying them as super-Earths.
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From Beijing's perspective, such developments mean that its rare earths trade gun is only going to diminish in power over time.
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"We're finding more and more super Earths and even things that are closer to Earth mass all the time," says Butler.
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Still, the lower quotas has increased concerns that China may not be able to produce enough rare earths for its demand.
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Investors also bought heavily into shares of rare earths miner Lynas Corporation which had its best day in almost two months.
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An extreme example is the near total reliance of the U.S. defence sector on rare earths mined and processed in China.
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And Brazil, which recently came under fire for its poor environmental policies, would need 1.8 Earths to fulfill its consumption demands.
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MINISTER FOR RESOURCES AND NORTHERN AUSTRALIA SAYS TALKS WITH WASHINGTON TO STRENGTHEN US-AUSTRALIA TIES ON CRITICAL MINERALS AND RARE EARTHS
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It accounted for only about 12 percent of world output of rare earths last year, according to Adamas, the research firm.
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"I think there's about 100 Ph.D.s in rare earths working in applications inside China and working in technology development," she said.
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What if China cuts off exports of the rare earths materials that are crucial to advanced manufacturing in the United States?
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Rare earths were in a list of 35 minerals deemed critical to U.S. security and economic prosperity published one year ago.
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Rare earths are found in many of the electronics that the world uses every day, and China is the largest source.
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The two friends gravitated to the Nation of Gods and Earths, a black cultural movement founded in Harlem in the 313s.
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The company peaked at A$2.70 a share in 2011 when rare earths prices rocketed following a Chinese curb on exports.
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The chemical elements on the periodic table with atomic numbers 28503 through 22019 make up the critical elements called rare earths.
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In 2015, China eliminated quotas for rare earths used in mobile phones after the organization declared the system violated trade policies.
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This image shows the planet's north pole and its hexagonal blue-yellow storm, which is big enough to fit several Earths inside.
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"WM: "She can travel to alternate universes — so there's our earth, and then she can go to alternate versions of different earths.
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Any move by China to crimp supply would increase the importance of Lynas which one of the major producers of rare earths.
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The Australian company has been running the plant in Malaysia since 2012 using rare earths mined from Mount Weld in Western Australia.
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A decision to renew the license is important for the market for rare earths, as Lynas is the biggest producer outside China.
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CSRE, one of China's six largest rare earths companies, was formed in 2015 through the merger of three firms in Jiangxi province.
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Output of rare earths oxides (REO) in the quarter ending March 31 was 5,13 tonnes, compared with 4,110 tonnes produced lasta year.
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GRAPHIC: Rare Earth Production - here In June, China more than doubled tariffs on U.S. rare earths imports for refining to 25 percent.
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After processing, rare earths need to be turned into rare earth magnets, found in precision-guided missiles, smart bombs and military jets.
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The real economic opportunity is that vanishing glaciers are opening up its mineral resources, including rare earths and possibly oil and gas.
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That supply dearth outside of China is fuelling a rare earths rush with miners scouring the world for new sources of production.
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The challenge with producing rare earths (and the reason they were given their name) is that they're rarely found in concentrated lumps.
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As ever with rare earths, this is all about what is happening in China, the world's dominant producer of these critical materials.
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The firm is looking to rebuild its liquefied natural gas (LNG) business and develop a rare earths business as a new niche.
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At another company in Ganzhou, a manager shows off several of its products: little disc magnets, each containing about 30% rare earths.
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But unlike copper and similarly well-known elements, such as gold and silver, rare earths don't clump together in single-element lumps.
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A decision to renew the licence is important for the market for rare earths, as Lynas is the biggest producer outside China.
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That mine's availability undercuts the argument that relaxing mine permitting rules is necessary to stimulate rare earths' availability for national security uses.
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Several U.S. senators have sponsored legislation in recent weeks designed to boost domestic production of lithium, rare earths and other strategic minerals.
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Sceptics point to past excessive exuberance in metallic bubbles such as rare earths as a warning of what may lie in store.
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The mine was once among the world's largest for rare earths, which are chemical elements used in cell phones and military equipment.
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President Trump's Administration is making it increasingly clear that in its ideal world it wouldn't buy any of China's rare earths anyway.
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But rare earths are just some of the elements increasingly sought after as more of the world becomes increasingly flush with technology.
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Meanwhile, rare earths producer Lynas Corp Ltd slid 2.6% to a near four-week trough after posting a drop in quarterly revenue.
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"It is definitely the first time since at least 1985 when China emerged as a major producer of rare earths," he said.
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"Then we can actually start looking into studies of what habitability actually means compared to Earth or compared to other super-Earths."
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China is the world's largest producer of rare earths and the biggest supplier to the United States, according the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The government resolutely opposes any attempt to use products made with China's exported rare earths to suppress the country's development, Meng added.
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Another study found that most exoplanets greater than 1.6 Earth radii aren't rocky, making them more like mini-Neptunes than super-Earths.
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Australia's Lynas Corp Ltd, the world's largest rare earths miner and processor outside of China, is developing a processing plant in Texas.
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Australia's Lynas Corp Ltd, the world's largest rare earths miner and processor outside of China, is developing a processing plant in Texas.
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Baotou and Ganzhou are China's two hubs for rare earths, which are prized for their use in consumer electronics and military equipment.
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According to international research organization the Global Footprint Network, it takes 1.7 earths to meet our demand on nature and its resources.
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The book follows Jim Kennedy and his quest to wake up Washington to the threat of the Chinese monopoly on rare earths.
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China produced 80% of rare-earths, a group of 17 chemical elements used in electronics, imported by the United States in 2017.
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Australia's Lynas Corp, the world's only rare earths producer outside of China, has been supported by low interest loans from Japan's government.
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In the 1980s, DC tried to clear up all its contradictions and confusions by rebooting the entire universe in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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But the U.S. accounted for only 9% of global demand for rare earths that go into the manufacturing process, according to Raymond James.
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If growth rates continue as projected and lifestyle patterns don't change by 2050, nearly three Earths will be needed to support the population.
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China has imposed retaliatory tariffs, is threatening to punish "unreliable" foreign firms and to withhold exports of rare earths used to make electronics.
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It's a reasonable question to ask, given the prevalence of super-Earths in the Milky Way—large, rocky exoplanets with strong surface gravity.
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That may make Beijing hesitant to drive up global prices, lest it set the precedent of using rare earths as a political tool.
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Possible measures include merging companies, reducing the industry's reliance on the international market, and encouraging wider use of rare earths in industrial products.
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It's easy to forget the scale when looking at an image like this; more than 1,300 Earths would fit inside this gas giant.
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Government surveys have shown the existence of various minerals in Uganda, including gold, base metals, uranium, rare earths, iron, titanium, vermiculite and diamonds.
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The Chinese tabloid Global Times also said Tuesday that China can play the "rare earths card" and that it's "seriously considering" the move.
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A possible release of stocks is now under active consideration as a way of controlling the latest sign of a rare earths boom.
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It's "an important reflection of the fact that countries all around the world are keen to have rare earths processing capabilities," Lacaze said.
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This makes extracting rare earths from common earth like convincing a drunk friend to leave a raucous party: a lengthy and harrowing procedure.
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And yet, as my colleague James Vincent has already set out, rare earths are not the secret weapon China imagines them to be.
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But last month a Malaysian politician said that plant should be closed, denting the company's stock and further unnerving the rare earths market.
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"These magnets are the farthest thing from a commodity that we can imagine," says Ryan Castilloux, of Adamas Intelligence, a rare-earths consultancy.
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But if we can devise efficient chemical separations, the thought of recycling a wide variety of rare earths starts to become less onerous.
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A group of seventeen chemically similar elements—including the 15 lanthanide metals, scandium, and yttrium—rare earths are actually plentiful in Earth's crust.
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Some industries have cut back—Tesla doesn't use rare earths in its batteries or motors—but for other applications, that isn't yet feasible.
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The term "super-Earth" is apt; this planet weighs as much as eight Earths, and its surface temperature blazes at 2,050 degrees Celsius.
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Possible retaliatory measures by China could include tariffs, a ban on the export of rare earths and penalties against U.S. companies in China.
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The Pentagon has already asked miners to describe plans to develop U.S. rare earths mines and processing facilities by the end of July.
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The sector would be more exposed than most to any supply squeeze of rare earths from China, which is home to most reserves.
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Last year in Kunming, a city in the south-west, Fanya Metals Exchange, which mostly traded rare earths, froze $20153 billion of funds.
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Ayurvedic medicine consists of using various combinations of herbs, earths, spices, and resins to treat and cure ailments of the body and mind.
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The Australian company has been running its $800-million Malaysian plant since 2012, processing rare earths mined from Mount Weld in Western Australia.
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Those applications also make them vital for defense applications and most major defense contractors depend on components and subsystems that contain rare earths.
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The heightened trade war concerns bolstered interest in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation Ltd, which saw its best day in nearly four weeks.
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Lynas Corp, the largest rare earths producer outside China, has seen its stock price surge some 82% this year owing to Sino-U.
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More fundamentally, though, the rare earths market will remain beholden to China simply because it accounts for so much of the world's production.
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Rare earths Beijing has raised the prospect of restricting rare earth exports to the United States but has not announced any formal measures.
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The rare earths miner added that Gading Senggara Sdn Bhd has been appointed as the contractor to manage the project for $98 million.
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People use the rare earths to tell stories of American industrial decline, the power of China's authoritarian central planning or of American vulnerability.
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Collaboration among the best minds is the norm for major technological undertakings, including those considered "critical" or "sensitive" as rare earths currently are.
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In Brazil, the company that operates the Araxá mine has developed techniques for recovering rare earths from waste left behind from niobium mining.
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The U.S. hasn't invested in mass rare earths production since the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the first atomic bomb.
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Lynas is the only major producer outside China of rare earths, which are crucial for making products such as computers and mobile phones.
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But after rare earths are processed, they must be turned into magnets, otherwise they are of little value to electronics and weapons manufacturers.
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Toyota said the magnet will "contribute to reducing the risks of a disruption in supply and demand of rare earths and price increases."
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And beyond the solar system, JPL is taking a strong role in discovering new Earths, exoplanets in the habitable zone, with water and oxygen.
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You can't help but see the sun, given its size (864,000 miles in diameter, or big enough to hold 1.3 million Earths) and luminosity.
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The report includes 61 specific recommendations - including low-interest loans and a buy American provision for defense companies - to increase U.S. rare earths supply.
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"China has strategically flooded the global market with rare earths at subsidized prices, driven out competitors, and deterred new market entrants," the report said.
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The country is also poised to become a net importer of rare earths by 2025 as it looks to fuel its own tech industry.
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Beijing also asked these provinces to share thoughts and suggestions on how to improve the supply security of strategic mining resources like rare earths.
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The Pentagon, according to Reuters, recently presented a report to Congress on the rare earths market and how to find alternative sources from China.
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Back in 2010, China stopped exports of rare earths to Japan following a diplomatic incident involving a fishing trawler and the disputed Senkaku Islands.
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The Mountain Pass mine in California, which once supplied most of the world's rare earths but which shut in the early 2000s, has reopened.
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He tells The Verge that because of this, the West has been more or less happy to cede production of rare earths to China.
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Your back garden contains dirt, because it would cost more to extract the rare earths from it then you would make selling them on.
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"You can basically supply all the rare earths you need from the deep sea," John Wiltshire, director of Hawaii's Undersea Research Lab told Gizmodo.
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Reuters reported that Malaysia plans to extend the firm's license to operate a rare earths processing plant in the country, ahead of a Sept.
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Attention is growing on rare earths, an obscure grouping of 17 minerals used to build weapons, consumer electronics and a range of other goods.
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Northern Minerals is among Australia's most advanced development projects for rare earths, a group of 17 minerals critical to high tech industries and defense.
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On Thursday, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, introduced a bill that would let rare earths producers form cooperatives, avoiding U.S. antitrust statutes.
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The auction would include the company's closed mine in Mountain Pass, California, which was once one of the world's main sources for rare earths.
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Molycorp filed for bankruptcy in June with more than $1.7 billion in debt after prices for rare earths fell when China lifted export restrictions.
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China is the world's biggest producer of rare earths, which are prized for their usage as components in electronic devices including phones and computers.
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Raytheon Co, Lockheed Martin Corp and BAE Systems Plc all make sophisticated missiles that use rare earths metals in their guidance systems and sensors.
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The heightened trade war fears also bolstered demand for shares of rare earths miner Lynas Corp, which saw its best day since May 31.
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Chinese export controls on exports of rare earths would be a fairly clear violation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) prohibition on export restrictions.
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The USGS estimates that China accounted for around 220.5 percent of global rare earths production last year, or 105,000 tonnes out of 130,000 tonnes.
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Beijing claimed environmental reasons but the move was widely seen as retaliation against Japan, its biggest-volume rare earths customer, over a maritime dispute.
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Rare earths are essential components in rechargeable batteries that power electric and hybrid cars as well as fighter jets, tanks and other military equipment.
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Medallion is effectively looking for partners to help it build a facility that would turn monazite into rare earths for use in North America.
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China hosts most of the world's processing capacity and supplied 80% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017.
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China controls more than 90% of the global production of rare earths, 17 minerals with magnetic and conductive properties that power most electronic devices.
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" Lost in the recycling process are "things like indium (used in touchscreens), rare earths like neodymium in the magnets in the speaker and microphone.
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While China is determined to resist American pressure, limits on rare earths "will affect many other countries," said Gary Liu, a Shanghai-based economist.
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China controls more than 20.4% of the global production of rare earths, 27.2 minerals with magnetic and conductive properties that power most electronic devices.
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Until America embraces more mining for minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earths, accelerating renewables means replacing hydrocarbon exports with more mineral imports.
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"The U.S. rare earths industry needs big help to compete against the Chinese," Jim McKenzie, CEO of UCore Rare Metals, told the wire service.
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He said they could improve their lives if minerals under their reservations were tapped - from gold and silver to uranium, niobium and rear earths.
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The US did not mine any rare earths domestically in 2017, instead importing an estimated $150 million, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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Three of these exoplanets are super-Earths that might have once been Neptune-sized but shed material due to the heat of their stars.
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It is the largest shareholder in Canada-listed Mkango Resources, which has a high-grade rare earths deposit in Malawi, with a 12.5% stake.
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S. companies from doing business with U.S. manufacturers that need rare earths, rather than just restricting supplies from China to American factories, Raymond James warned.
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The official noted that 80% of U.S. demand for processed rare earths is for lanthanum and cerium, both of which are oversupplied around the world.
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The trouble is that Mountain Pass currently has no ability to separate the rare earths into the type of products required for technological supply chains.
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Research firm Adams Intelligence estimates that between 2018 and 2030 the value of demand will quadruple, turning rare earths into at nearly $16 billion market.
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The company is heavily lobbying the Trump administration to require U.S. defense contractors to use domestically-sourced rare earths, rather than source them from China.
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The Chinese government retaliated with tariffs on $60 billion of US exports and have been increasing scrutiny of exports of rare earths to US companies.
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That coincided with a thinly veiled threat about rare earths, of which the country is a major exporter, from the government's top economic planning agency.
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Avoiding rare earths will help to protect BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors (TTM), from any potential supply disruptions.
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China's Communist Party newspaper warned the United States that the country was ready to use rare earths to strike back in their bitter trade war.
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At present, China is the world's largest producer of rare earths, a critical component in the manufacturing of products ranging from smartphones to electric vehicles.
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This is one of the reasons that countries like the US have been more or less happy to cede production of rare earths to China.
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The potato-like nodules contain rings of metal-rich layers, including rare earths—high-tech metals used in the production of cell phones and computers.
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Radially, the planet is around nine times larger than our own, and is extremely voluminous, containing enough space to fit over 700 Earths inside it.
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In part this is due to the fact that most of the rare earths needed to build high technology products are also produced in China.
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The impact: China exports about 80% of the rare earths imported by the U.S., and a boycott could cripple much of American high-tech manufacturing.
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But according to Mike Johnston, CEO of the deep ocean mining company Nautilus Minerals, rare earths can be co-extracted along with other valuable ores.
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Who never lacks appreciation for earths beauty or fails to express it – who looks for the best in others and gives the best they have.
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China, the world's largest rare earth exporter, sold 3,571 tonnes of rare earths in September, figures from the General Administration of Customs of China showed.
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"The overall goal is to secure and assure a viable, domestic supplier (of rare earths) for the long-term," according to the nine-page document.
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Lynas operates an $800 million plant in the Malaysian town of Kuantan that refines ore from a rare-earths mine that it owns in Australia.
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Lynas, the only major proven producer outside China of rare earths, said its decision will allow it to consolidate its position as a preferred supplier.
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Rising trade tensions between the United States and China have sparked concerns that Beijing could leverage its dominant position as a supplier of rare earths.
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Rare earths are critical to the U.S. on three grounds: national security, today's mainstream electronics products and tomorrow's industries of the future, like electric cars.
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" Kennedy said that until the U.S. has a secure source of rare earths, "The Pentagon has built its entire advanced weapons [strategy] on Chinese quicksand.
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With such mineral wealth in our land, there is no reason why the U.S. should rely on imports for rare earths and other mineral commodities.
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"If there is a full-blown trade war, I can't believe that the Chinese wouldn't use rare earths as part of that," Ms. Lacaze says.
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Even if it doesn't disrupt the supply, China will likely keep its grip over the market for rare earths for a long time to come.
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Of course there are many super-Earths, and many planets in habitable zones, and many planets with water — but they're never one and the same.
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Lynas, the largest rare earths producer outside China that sells most of its products to China, says the low-level radioactive waste is not hazardous.
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China controls more than 90% of rare earths production, which is key to the production of smartphones and tablets, according to the US Geological Survey.
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However, the final list released on Monday does not mention rare earths, a group of 15 lanthanide metallic elements plus the metals scandium and yttrium.
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Earth-based mining companies may soon face stiff competition from the mining of gold, silver, platinum and rare earths on asteroids and even other planets.
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There could be Earths that formed and were habitable a long time ago and it adds another dimension of time where habitable planets could exist.
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Rare Earths: The Taptic engine—Apple's key component for producing haptic feedback—in the iPhone 11 models uses 100 percent recycled rare-earth metals. 2.
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The scene recalls the opening sequence of the film, where drilling for rare earths and gems in Ethiopia fades into a depiction of Howard's colonoscopy.
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Green Arrow, played by Stephen Amell, having sacrificed himself during the multi-series crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths," the producers faced a delicate balancing act.
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Netflix&aposs "Lucifer" revival is still going strong, as the title character recently appeared in The CW&aposs "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover television event.
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The Japanese firm said it had developed a magnet which replaced some of the neodymium with more abundant and cheaper rare earths — lanthanum and cerium.
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Reuters reported in June that the Pentagon held talks with Malawi's Mkango Resources Ltd, Burundi's Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd and other miners about securing supply.
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In particular, rare earths are used in the design of high-power magnets found in electric motors for cars, vacuums, wind turbines and other machines.
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The "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover episodes begin on December 8 with "Supergirl," followed by "Batwoman" on December 9 and "The Flash" on December 10.
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Mount Weld mine holds one of the world's richest deposits of rare earths, which are crucial in development of everything from iPhones to weapons system.
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Rare earths are a group of 17 minerals that aren't actually rare, but are produced in fairly scarce quantities compared with abundantly mined metals like copper.
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Wells Fargo Investment Institute said the ban would put U.S. manufacturers that use rare earths in a bind, increasing production costs and even causing product delays.
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The market for rare earths is expected to grow substantially over the next decade as the world becomes more and more dependent on high-tech products.
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Chinese state media stoked such concerns in May, when it hinted the country could restrict access to rare earths as a weapon in the trade war.
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While China has so far not explicitly said it would restrict rare earths sales to the United States, Chinese media have strongly implied this would happen.
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For one thing, we don't know that super-Earths would have iron cores that look like the iron we measure in a lab on regular earth.
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Which poses an interesting question: How difficult would it be for aliens living on these super-Earths to launch rockets into space, given the tremendous gravity?
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It also follows mounting concerns that supplies of rare earths, used in everything from consumer electronics to military equipment, could be impacted by the Sino-U.
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Another analyst said the issue surrounding the supply of rare earths is "clearly" a part of the ongoing battle for technological supremacy between Washington and Beijing.
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Lynas is the only significant producer outside China of rare earths, the name for a group of 17 metals used in batteries, computers, televisions and smartphones.
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"It has shown us these terrestrial worlds, and we still have all this work to do to really understand how common Earths are in the galaxy."
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RARE EARTHS China has raised the prospect of restricting rare earth exports to the United States but has not announced any formal curbs or export duties.
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When it comes to the search for planets outside our Solar System, also called exoplanets, astronomers have been particularly interested in super-Earths like LHS 1140b.
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China is by far the world's largest producer and consumer of rare earths, a group of 21 elements used to make electric vehicles and consumer electronics.
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Data released on Monday by Chinese customs showed that China exported 3,639.5 metric tons of rare earths last month, down from 4,0003 metric tons in April.
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These are the largest of the terrestrial planets, similar in composition to the inner planets of the Solar System, and are sometimes known as super-Earths.
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Lynas, the only rare earths producer outside China, had been a market darling during the bubble years, with its share price hitting $2.55 in April 2011.
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An industry joke has it that it can carry its annual supply of heavy rare earths (the kind used in its missiles) in a single suitcase.
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But the turnaround is also due to advances by companies like Bloom, which uses cheap, abundant ceramics rather than the rare earths utilized in earlier technology.
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As societies transition off fossil fuels, toward cleaner energy sources and quieter vehicles, demand for rare earths and other exotic metals is only going to grow.
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"This could start a technological evolution in the rare earths industry," said Sun Xiaoqi, lead scientist on the project, according to the South China Morning Post.
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China is by far the world's largest producer and consumer of rare earths, a group of 17 elements used to make electric vehicles and consumer electronics.
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A typical Toyota Prius, for example, uses 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of rare earths, compared to 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs) in a typical combustion-engine vehicle.
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It is unclear how much money the U.S. military will spend to boost America's rare earths industry as the DPA does not set a financial limit.
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Until in the wake of the ferocious rare earths boom and bust cycle at the start of the decade, Honda and Daido Steel did exactly that.
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Lynas is the only significant producer outside China of rare earths, which have military applications and are used in batteries, computers, televisions and many other products.
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There have been concerns that China, a key exporter of rare earths to the United States, may use that fact as leverage in the trade spat.
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While China has so far not explicitly said it would restrict rare earths sales to the United States, Chinese media has strongly implied this will happen.
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The report was cheered by U.S. miners, including MP Materials, which owns California's Mountain Pass mine, the only current rare earths facility in the United States.
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For now, it must pay a 25 percent tariff to ship its rare earths to China for processing, collateral damage in the U.S.-China trade war.
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The Australian mining company said it was starting an initial drill programme in Spain to test for metals including lithium, cobalt, tin, tungsten and rare earths.
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The United States relies on China for supplies of the rare earths to make a host of high-tech products, from satellites to electric car batteries.
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China is the world's dominant producer of rare earths and has occasionally exported a similar volume to the January-February combined total in a single month.
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Because the rare earth elements are largely produced in China, Americans of all ideological stripes tend to project their anxieties about China onto the rare earths.
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The CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover will bring together the complete Arrowverse — Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and the new series, Batwoman.
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The licence, valid until early March 2023, will allow it to continue processing rare earths at its $800 million plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, the company said.
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On the episode, which is one of five total, superheroes from across the multiverse united to prevent complete destruction as anti-matter swept across several Earths.
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That list of minerals includes lithium used in batteries, along with rare earths such as neodymium, used in industrial magnets, and gallium, used to make semiconductors.
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To handle something called a Crisis on Infinite Earths, the architects of the Arrowverse are bringing in not one, but two Supermen for the upcoming crossover event.
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In statements posted on its website Wednesday, a representative of China's powerful National Development and Reform Commission again hinted at the possibility of action on rare earths.
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Lynas said the loan extension is key to ensuring that the world's only major rare earths producer outside China remains a profitable and reliable supplier to Japan.
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In addition to their use in electronics, rare earths are vital to many of the major weapons systems that the United States relies on for national security.
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Small planets appear to be the most common, especially super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes, that is, exoplanets slightly larger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune or Uranus.
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Chinese state media had warned that Beijing could use its dominant position as a rare earths exporter to the United States as leverage in the trade dispute.
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According to the Global Footprint Network's calculator, if all of humanity were to live like the French, we would need about 2.5 Earths to sustain that lifestyle.
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And while rare earths account for a small fraction of the $420 billion U.S. goods deficit with China, their worth to American firms outpaces their nominal value.
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The most threatening retort since Huawei was turned into a trade pawn by Trump has been a visit by president Xi Jinping to a rare earths facility.
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However, others say the American manufacturing sector is not a big consumer of rare earths, so Beijing's ability to use those minerals as a leverage is limited.
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What to watch: If Trump completes his attack on Huawei, Xi could retaliate against U.S. tech titans that rely on rare earths, such as Tesla and Apple.
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MP Materials, the only existing U.S. rare earths facility, ships its ore to China for processing and has been subject to a 25% tariff since last month.
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It has shown us these terrestrial worlds, and we still have all of this work to do to really understand how common Earths are in the galaxy.
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The possibility of a domestic rare earths processing facility, as announced by Australia's Lynas Corp and Texas-based Blue Line Corp, would be a much bigger step.
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The only U.S. domestic source of rare earths is the privately-owned Rare Earth Salts, which commissioned a plant in Nebraska in the middle of last year.
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Additionally, she had previously referenced these timelines in her Doctor Strange debut — but she's never provided any specifics about potential other Earths that might exist within them.
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Prices of neodymium rare earths - used in magnets and speakers - have surged 26.5% since May 20, while those of dysprosium and gadolinium oxide have gained around 10%.
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The whole rare earths sector, which China dominates, has been undergoing structural changes as Beijing tries to weed out unofficial operators and push bigger players to consolidate.
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Companies such as Raytheon Co, Lockheed Martin Corp and BAE Systems Plc all make sophisticated missiles that use rare earths metals in their guidance systems, and sensors.
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The country's rare earths sector was severely disrupted due to the pandemic, with overall rare earth exports down 17.3% in January and February from a year earlier.
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Its rare earths sector was severely disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, however, with overall rare earth exports down 17.3% in January and February from a year earlier.
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The super-Earths are 7.5 and 7.9 times the mass of Earth and take 106 and 122 Earth days to complete one orbit around their stars, respectively.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corp slid 3.5% after its chief executive officer said she expects prices to remain weak for major products as China ramps up output.
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Australia's Lynas Corp is the world's largest producer of rare earths outside China, but a handful of other projects have been struggling for finance to start production.
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Australia's Lynas Corp is the world's largest producer of rare earths outside China, but a handful of other projects have been struggling for finance to start production.
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Rare earths have grown in prominence since early last year given their widespread use in everything from weapons manufacturing to electric vehicles, with supply dominated by China.
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The United States Army plans to invest in the construction of rare earths processing facilities that can be used to produce military weapons and electronics, Reuters reports.
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Niobium is a component in high-strength steels and rare earths are a group of 17 elements used in consumer electronics and magnets for electric vehicle motors.
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Data from BepiColombo could help indicate whether these distant earths could retain an atmosphere or whether any air would be stripped away by the strong stellar winds.
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If everyone on earth consumed the way middle-class and wealthy Americans consume, we would need an additional 4.5-6 earths worth of resources to sustain ourselves.
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Rare earths are a group of 17 minerals critical to a wide array of industries from high-tech consumer electronics to electric vehicles and sophisticated military equipment.
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The U.S. said this week it would look to Australia and Canada to develop rare earths reserves around the world to reduce the global reliance on China.
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China mined 70% of these minerals in 2018, leading some analysts last week to raise questions about the impact to U.S. industries that are reliant on rare earths.
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If we keep consuming like we are consuming, we'd need two planet Earths by 2030, so it's very in our faces and sometimes we don't see that clearly.
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MP Materials say they supply about 10% of the world's rare earths, a set of 17 minerals with magnetic and conductive properties that help power most electronic devices.
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Australia-listed Lynas, the only significant producer of rare earths outside of China, is waiting on renewal of the operating license for its $800-million Malaysian processing plant.
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Among them are potential super-Earths, sub-Neptunes, hot Jupiters and worlds such as Kepler-452b, a possibly rocky, watery "Earth cousin" located 4.53,400 light-years from here.
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One option would be to launch rockets from the highest mountain tops, but given the flat topology of super-Earths, tall mountains would be hard to come by.
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In Samsung SDI's case, it announced just last week that it would be buying a stake in a company that recycles old tech for its precious rare earths.
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The report highlights China's willingness to consolidate the industry and strengthen control of rare earths production, which Beijing sees as a powerful bargaining chip in the trade war.
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Production of NdPr, or neodymium-praseodymium, rose 19.4 percent to 1,591 tonnes, a new quarterly record, said Lynas, the world's only major producer of rare earths outside China.
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On Thursday, the state-run China Daily newspaper said "it would be naive to think that China does not have other countermeasures apart from rare earths to hand".
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"With the rare earths headline, I think investors are realizing that this is more than just about a trade war," said Michael Katz, partner at Seven Points Capital.
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In a commentary headlined "United States, don't underestimate China's ability to strike back", the official People's Daily noted the United States' "uncomfortable" dependence on rare earths from China.
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China has previously threatened to use the country's dominance in the global production of rare earths — used in many consumer electronics — as a tool in the trade war.
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Chinese exports of rare earths fell in May amid Beijing's threat to stop supplying the U.S. with those minerals used to make a wide range of consumer electronics.
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In the meantime, Seager says she's excited about finding planets that are about two to three times the size of Earth, known as super-Earths or mini-Neptunes.
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"All the big land-based deposits in the world are almost solely light rare earths," Jim Hein, an ocean minerals specialist with the US Geological Survey, told Gizmodo.
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However, RBC Capital Markets warned a Chinese ban could backfire by prompting the start-up of rare earths production from other countries, breaking China's hold on the market.
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"We have been diversifying our procurement channels, building partnerships with our suppliers and working to reduce the use of rare earths," Panasonic said in a statement to Reuters.
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In December, Malaysia's Energy and Environment ministry required Lynas, the only rare earths producer outside of China, to remove the accumulating radioactive wastes to qualify for a renewal.
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In a commentary headlined "United States, don't underestimate China's ability to strike back," the official People's Daily noted the United States' "uncomfortable" dependence on rare earths from China.
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That means that in a cube 0003,000 miles on a side — that's a volume equal to some 120,000 Earths — there would be, on average, just one asteroid inside.
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So sizable is Jupiter that its famous Great Red Spot—photographed here in a close-up by Voyager 21989 in early 22—could contain three or four Earths.
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So sizable is Jupiter that its famous Great Red Spot—photographed here in a close-up by Voyager 1 in early 1979—could contain three or four Earths.
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"We look at it first in terms of the mining capability — rare earths, oil, gas, there are tremendous resources in the North that could be exploited," he said.
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Yet, obtaining the permits to open a new copper, nickel or rare earths mine in the U.S. takes an average of seven to ten years, and often longer.
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Last month, it said that Brandon Routh, who played Superman in the 2006 film Superman Returns, would reprise the role for the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths event.
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Lynas Corp, however, rose as much as 3.9% after the rare earths miner said it was on track to get its processing licence renewed by Malaysia in March.
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Arrowverse star Katherine McNamara says that filming The CW&aposs "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover event was "utter mayhem" and it&aposll be an emotional rollercoaster for fans.
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Some recently discovered super-Earths are in their stars' habitable zones — the range of distances in which a planet's surface could be the right temperature for liquid water.
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So when we first started talking about 'Crisis on Infinite Earths,' our first, second and third priorities were getting Tom to reprise his iconic role as Clark Kent.
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Raymond James noted that U.S. oil refineries use rare earths in their plants, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch said it expects the automotive sector to be most affected.
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Molycorp's value swelled in 2011 with a commodities boom and export restrictions on rare earths by China, the world's leading producer of the elements used in smartphones and automobiles.
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To put that into perspective, Jupiter's atmosphere is so deep you could fit more than two Earths on top of each other and still not reach its full extent.
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With few friends in Washington, and signs that its own economy is hurting, China could find that a rare earths play could be another gamble that doesn't pay off.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's rare earths association said it would support Chinese counter-measures in the escalating trade row with the United States, which it accused on Wednesday of "bullying".
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Filaproms are large, gaseous features that can be partially seem over the Sun's disk as a filament, and they are known to reach lengths equal to 150 Earths aligned.
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Lacaze, who joined Lynas in 1.713 from telco giant Telstra on a turnaround mission, adds that the industry is "gradually remediating itself," noting the many uses for rare earths.
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In typical comic book bad-guy fashion, Kingpin creates tears in the space-time continuum and gains access to an infinite supply of alternate Earths – and their Spider-Men.
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Most exoplanet discoveries involve what researchers like to call super-Earths, or planets that can be a few times the size of ours but not as big as Neptune.
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NEXT FRONT Chinese state media had warned that Beijing could use its dominant position as a rare earths exporter to the United States as leverage in the trade dispute.
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And in 2010 the Chinese authorities halted most exports of rare earths, raising fears about their stranglehold on the supply of minerals critical to green-energy technology (see article).
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The U.S. military is worried about China's dominance of the rare earths market, calling it a "significant and growing risk," according to a Pentagon study released earlier this month.
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KUANTAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Australia's Lynas Corp is confident its license to run an $800 million rare earths processing plant in Malaysia will be renewed by authorities before a Sept.
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But all governments judge rare earths - a group of 17 elements with electronic and magnetic properties - key because of their role in high-tech, low-emission economies and defence.
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Climate change could also boost the island's hopes to develop minerals ranging from rare earths to oil and gas, even though low prices have put most plans on hold.
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Nearly half of those are designated to be Earth-sized or Super Earths, which tells scientists there could be nearly a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone.
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Sectors such as rare earths production have in the past been plagued by smaller, illegal operators with scant regard for environmental or any other sort of regulatory box-ticking.
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Already rare earths have become embroiled in the conflict — they were among the long list released on Tuesday of Chinese-made goods that the Trump administration wants to tax.
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Restrict rare earths supply One of China's advantages in the trade war is its near monopoly on a group of minerals that the global tech industry can't live without.
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His visit was a none-too-subtle reminder that China has a commanding presence in rare earths and could shut off global supplies — something it has done once before.
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The CW&aposs epic Arrowverse crossover, "Crisis on Infinite Earths," concluded on Tuesday night with two back-to-back episodes and included an astonishing cameo from a DC star.
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Until now, "the impact cratering record was absent when significant changes in the Earths hydrosphere and atmosphere occurred" between 2.1 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, according the study.
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Lynas Corp also gained after Malaysia approved a new three-year licence that allows the Australian miner to operate the only major rare earths processing plant outside of China.
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There the intention is to exploit other minerals in KGHM's reserves - including rare earths and lithium - as well as the copper and silver that are the basis of KGHM.
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Apple said it will used recycled rare earths in its "Taptic Engine," a part that lets iPhones mimic a physical button click despite being a flat pane of glass.
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"But then a couple of days later, you can see a big movement in the prices - so that was mainly because of this possible weaponising of rare earths," Lau said.
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Beijing last week issued a thinly veiled threat about rare earths to the United States, suggesting it may choose to restrict exports in retaliation for US tariffs on Chinese goods.
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The rejection came a day after Wesfarmers launched a bid of A$2.25 per Lynas share, which represented a near 45 percent premium to the rare earths miner's Monday's close.
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Chinese rare earths companies also rose after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited some rare earth companies, leading to speculation that China may disrupt shipments to retaliate in the trade war.
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Five subsequent years of low-scale range-trading have seen rare earths slip off the collective investment radar, their place taken by new "hot" metals such as lithium and cobalt.
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Indeed, according to Adamas Intelligence, which specializes in critical mineral markets, an explicit focus of the most recent inspections has been on 180 companies involved in the rare earths sector.
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Rare earths, though not as rare as the name suggests, are sold in differing grades, often via murky backroom deals, and the volumes are too low for a commodities exchange.
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The underland is rifled for treasure, oil, gold, rare earths; it is visited by heroes and shamans to retrieve memories, discover mysteries, consort with ghosts (Aeneas) or rescue love (Orpheus).
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CHINA'S RETALIATION OPTIONS Chinese state media had warned that Beijing could use its dominant position as a rare earths exporter to the United States as leverage in the trade dispute.
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"Circumstances seem to be more optimistic for junior mining IPOs in the short to medium term than they have been before," said Martin Eales, chief executive of Rainbow Rare Earths.
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"In the 'classical model' of terrestrial planet formation, water delivery to Earth is very [random] so it's reasonable to imagine alternate Earths with over ten times more water," said Raymond.
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RARE EARTHS IN MILITARY EQUIPMENT Some rare earth minerals are essential in military equipment such as jet engines, missile guidance systems, antimissile defense systems, satellites, as well as in lasers.
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Shares of Australian miner Lynas dropped 3.07% as the future of an operating license renewal in Malaysia remains in question for the world's only major rare earths producer outside China.
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Analysts said that Xi's visit might indicate China is considering using rare earths as a weapon in the trade war, which provided support for the shares of the Chinese firms.
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A separate statement on the website of Chinese rare earths producer Shenghe Resources Holding Co listed itself and others including China Minmetals Rare Earth Co as partners in the center.
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Stocks of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers dropped 3.51 percent after the company announced a bid for embattled rare earths miner Lynas, whose own stock was earlier placed on a trading halt.
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These Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes are common in other solar systems, but if discovered, Planet Nine will be the first known planet of that class in our solar system.
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Rare earths are a group of 0003 chemical elements used in both consumer products, from iPhones to electric car motors, and critical military applications including jet engines, satellites and lasers.
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Lynas, the largest producer of rare earths outside China, is currently awaiting a license from Malaysia to increase its concentrate imports to the country, where it runs a refining facility.
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In July last year, the U.S. Trade Representative office included rare earths on a provisional list of tariffs on Chinese goods, only to remove it later from the final list.
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China has used its control of rare earths to exert pressure before, most notably in 2010 when it halted all exports to Japan for two months over a territorial dispute.
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"The message was, this is a supply chain and we control your supply chain," said Clint Cox, president of the Anchor House, a rare-earths consulting firm in Evanston, Ill.
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Lynas, the only major proven producer of rare earths outside China, added that Gading Senggara Sdn Bhd has been appointed as the contractor to manage the project for $98 million.
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" He continued, "So when we first started talking about Crisis on Infinite Earths, our first, second and third priorities were getting Tom to reprise his iconic role as Clark Kent.
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The world's main reserves of rare-earths, used in the production of a wide range of high-tech goods from mobile phones to electric cars, are currently concentrated in China.
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Chinalco Guangxi will also help Talaxis with its rare earth projects, including the construction of the Songwe Hill rare earths project in Malawi in southeast Africa, according to the statement.
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S. trade dispute as hints from China that it could cut off its rare earths exports to the United States resulted in the world's largest economy scrambling for new supplies.
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But added urgency has come from China's veiled threats to use its dominance of rare earths production as a weapon in the broader trade stand-off with the Trump Administration.
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Chinese rare earth prices started to move "right after China announced the import ban" on rare earths from Myanmar, said Helen Lau, an analyst at Argonaut Securities in Hong Kong.
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"But then a couple of days later, you can see a big movement in the prices - so that was mainly because of this possible weaponizing of rare earths," Lau said.
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"If China indeed weaponises rare earths, the U.S. will not have enough supply because it needs some lead time to build their own processing capacity, which currently is zero," she added.
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Lynas (LYSCF), an Australian processor of rare earths, touched a five-year high Thursday morning in Sydney — adding to the 15% gain it saw on Wednesday — before closing down down 0.7%.
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Over the past two weeks, China has hinted that it may use its dominant position as an exporter of rare earths to the United States as leverage in the trade war.
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Under Barack Obama the USTR challenged China 16 times, on issues from illegal taxes on American steel and cars to dumping and export quotas on rare earths that harmed American importers.
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The United States imports 53.2% of its rare earths from China, where state-owned news outlets have reported it could cut its shipments to the U.S. as part of the dispute.
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Reports in Chinese newspapers that the world's second biggest economy was ready to use rare earths to strike back in a trade war with the United States hit global financial markets.
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The U.S. pales in comparison as it mined 15,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2018 and has a total of 1.4 million metric tons of reserves, versus China's 44 million.
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China's Communist Party newspaper warned on Wednesday that Beijing was ready to use its dominance in rare earths to strike back against the United States in their increasingly bitter trade dispute.
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The division now is between two categories: "super-Earths," or rocky planets about 1.5 times the size of our own, and "mini-Neptunes," gassy planets more than 2.5 times Earth's size.
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China accounted for 80% of rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements used in high-technology consumer electronics and military equipment, imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017.
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To create rare earths from the ore that contains them the extracted material has to be dissolved in solutions of acids, over and over again, then filtered, and dissolved once more.
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Lynas Corp, among the worst performers on the benchmark, extended losses to fall 1.9 percent after auditors to the rare earths producer flagged a material risk to its business on Thursday.
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The same could happen if China denies Western energy technology a meaningful place in its markets (as it has done with American internet firms) or restricts access to its rare earths.
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Although the U.S. government has called them "essential" to the military, America has only 1 rare earths mine, which is partially Chinese-owned and sends its output to China for processing.
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China accounted for 80% of the rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements used in high-technology consumer electronics and military equipment, imported by the U.S. from 10 to 2017.
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It found so-called "super-Earths," which are planets that are only slightly bigger than Earth and which would have stronger gravity, but on which it would be possible to exist.
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The United States, a major market for Chinese rare earths, ships ores rich in lanthanum, used in oil refining, to China and then buys back the oxides and chemicals, Castilloux said.
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No final decision has been made on that plant and Lynas has also signed an initial deal to build a new rare earths processing plant near its existing facility in Malaysia.
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On the downside, rare-earths miner Lynas Corporation slipped amid signs of tightening regulations, with the firm facing the prospect of losing the operating license for its processing plant in Malaysia.
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Greenland, with vast mineral resources including uranium and rare earths, is strategically important for the U.S. military as the shortest route from North America to Europe goes via the Arctic island.
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Most of these 35 minerals are now subject to the U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, but rare earths, antimony - used in batteries and flame retardant - helium and natural graphite are not.
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Oil companies in the United States keep several months of catalysts in stockpiles, said Dudley Kingsnorth, a professor specializing in rare earths at the Western Australian School of Mines in Perth.
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We're just days away from one of the biggest TV crossover events ever attempted, as the five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths begins with an episode of Supergirl on Sunday, Dec.
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Details: Though the U.S. has domestic deposits of rare earths, it imports roughly 80% of its supply from China because mining and processing the materials can be difficult and environmentally dangerous.
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A new study…Read more ReadAn interesting characteristic of super-Earths is that most of them are likely to be water worlds—terrestrial planets covered entirely by a deep global ocean.
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Elsewhere, shares of Lynas Corp dropped 23% after the rare earths miner said it failed in securing approval from a Malaysian regulator to increase its lanthanide concentrate processing limit for 2019.
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"Our government usually moves slowly unless there's a severe crisis, at which time extraordinary action is needed to mitigate the problem," said Steve Constantinides, a U.S.-based rare earths industry consultant.
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Back in the 6900s, China discovered vast supplies of "rare earths" in large clay deposits in the country's south and west that are particularly valuable when used in superconductors and microchips.
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"If China indeed weaponizes rare earths, the U.S. will not have enough supply because it needs some lead time to build their own processing capacity, which currently is zero," she added.
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The United States imports 80% of its rare earths from China, where state-owned news outlets have reported it could cut its shipments to the U.S. as part of the dispute.
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It remains to be seen how China would structure a ban on rare earths, but some corners of Wall Street say the move wouldn't be a game changer for Beijing's trade negotiators.
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Another challenge would be the complete lack of terrestrial surface area; most super-Earths, it has been argued, are waterworlds, in which the entire planet is covered by a single, massive ocean.
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Jupiter, which could hold 1,300 Earths, orbits five times farther from the sun than Earth, but it may have started out elsewhere and migrated, jostling its smaller sibling planets as it moved.
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Investor jitters intensified after the People's Daily newspaper, owned by China's ruling Communist Party, said Beijing was ready to use rare earths for leverage in its trade dispute with the United States.
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The trade war has shifted from focus on America's large trade deficit with China to technological competition, and has touched on a range of issues such as rare earths and agricultural products.
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Investors from the United States and Canada have been watching for signs Greenland will get a flagging mining programme back on track to exploit vast mineral resources including uranium and rare earths.
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Investors from the United States and Canada have been watching for signs Greenland will get a flagging mining program back on track to exploit vast mineral resources including uranium and rare earths.
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Some argue that the U.S. is more reliant on Chinese supply than what current trade data suggest, so China limiting rare earths exports could hurt American industries such as defense and autos.
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Today, it's estimated that 15 million tons of rare earths—hard-to-get metals that make our technology lighter, faster, and better performing—are locked away on this forgotten patch of seafloor.
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That is a good metaphor for what China ultimately wants from rare earths, and for its economy more generally: to reach a size where no country, not even America, can pull away.
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China accounted for 80% of the rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements used in high-technology consumer electronics and military equipment, imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017.
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An anti-pollution drive means it wants higher quality iron ore, and aggressive targets on electric vehicles are likely to increase its consumption of minerals including copper, rare earths, aluminum and cobalt.
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HIGH-STAKES GAMBLE U.S. civilian society, however, is still highly dependent on China's rare earths supply, which is why they were conspicuous by their absence on the latest expanded U.S. tariffs list.
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It could be one black hole the size of a bowling ball with the mass of 10 Earths, or a number of smaller primordial black holes that add up to that mass.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corp Ltd surged 18.4 percent to a four-month high after announcing a 30 percent rise in sales volume in the June quarter, compared with the previous quarter.
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"It just means he was full of shit," he said when asked whether Quentin Beck's statement confirms there are no other Earths in the MCU, and thus no multiverse in its future.
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The mood darkened after the People's Daily newspaper, owned by China's ruling Communist Party, said Beijing was ready to use rare earths for leverage in its trade dispute with the United States.
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The minerals are set to be among the few items spared from U.S. tariffs in an escalating trade war with China, which is by far the world's biggest producer of rare earths.
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Rising trade tensions have led to concerns that Beijing will use its dominant position as a supplier of rare earths for leverage in the trade war between the United States and China.
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The problem is that rare earths have been made into a bargaining chip in the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute, which overshadows our shared interests and hobbles our progress toward lasting solutions.
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The U.S. could open a dozen rare earth mines and it would do little to change the current situation if we do not invest in refining rare earths and rebuilding technological manufacturing.
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On Thursday, Malaysia approved a new three-year license, that allows Lynas to continue processing rare earths at its Kuantan plant, subject to meeting several conditions that the miner expects to meet.
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On Thursday, Malaysia approved a new three-year license, that allows Lynas to continue processing rare earths at its Kuantan plant, subject to meeting several conditions that the miner expects to meet.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will accelerate the launch of futures contracts for rare earths, used in devices such as mobile telephones and batteries, an official of the Shanghai Futures Exchange said on Friday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will accelerate the launch of futures contracts for rare earths, used in devices such as mobile telephones and batteries, an official of the Shanghai Futures Exchange said on Friday.
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China last month warned it may curb exports to the United States of rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used in a plethora of military equipment and high-tech consumer electronics.
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In a filing to the Australian Securities Exchange on Thursday, Arafura said that Noble's rare earths subsidiary Talaxis would underwrite A$7.2 million of a A$23.2 million ($13 million) share offering.
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U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated on Wednesday that his trade policies on China would ultimately benefit the American economy, even as Beijing signalled it could strike back by curbing sales of rare earths.
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According to space scientist Karl Battams, the larger sunspots are about the size of the Earth, and the regions stretch across a part of the sun equal to the diameter of 16 Earths.
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The push comes as China threatens to curb exports to the United States of rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used in a plethora of military equipment and high-tech consumer electronics.
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Rare earths are a group of 17 chemical elements used in a wide range of consumer products from iPhones to electric car motors, and critical military applications including jet engines, satellites and lasers.
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Many products which use rare earths only require tiny amounts -- they have been described as "the vitamins of modern technology" -- and therefore it will take time for them to be impacted by tariffs.
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Companies have also begun to innovate how they use rare earths: Apple said in a recent environmental responsibility report that it has begun recycling rare earth materials from old iPhones and other products.
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The Chinese rare earths association on Wednesday said it would support countermeasures in the escalating trade dispute with the United States and accused Washington of using "trade bullying behavior" to suppress China's development.
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By next year, MP Materials aims to be the first U.S. company to refine rare earths since 2015 when Molycorp Inc, the former owner of California's Mountain Pass mine, went bankrupt, executives said.
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Litinsky and peers are betting that by bringing rare earths refining back to the United States, it will encourage other investors to build magnets and other related parts in the country as well.
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The People's Daily, the ruling Communist Party's flagship newspaper, warned that China was ready to use its dominance of rare earths, crucial minerals used in electronics, to strike back in the trade war.
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Chinese smugglers continued to export rare earths off the books; manufacturers in Japan found ways to use less of the materials; and production in other parts of the world ramped up to compensate.
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If we want to change Kavekana, to fix the Penitents and everything else without armed revolt, the priesthood needs a surplus--something to wean us off investments in bone oil and necromantic earths.
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And during NASA's Kepler mission, numerous super-Earths, or planets with a mass higher than Earth's, were found in close orbits around their stars, toeing the line of so-called "baby-proof" region.
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Not a lot of super-Earths have been found to sit in the habitable zone, so this rare find raises the possibility that there could be a lot more planets like this one.
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Uganda has been keen to attract investors to its mining sector after government surveys established the existence of minerals including gold, base metals, uranium, rare earths, iron, titanium, vermiculite, diamond in various locations.
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This so-called energy transition has set off a global race for the best technologies and raised concerns about access to the rare earths and critical minerals needed to make the necessary hardware.
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Lianyugang was to make a pre-payment of A$10 mln ($6.77 mln) to the rare earths metal explorer under the deal, with the final value of the agreement depending on volumes delivered.
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The company said the deal, initially signed in April 2017 for the supply of rare earths output from its Browns Range project in Western Australia, was terminated as Lianyugang had breached the agreement.
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Lianyugang was to make a pre-payment of A$10 million ($6.77 million) to the rare earths metal explorer under the deal, with the final value of the agreement depending on volumes delivered.
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Amid a crackdown on illegal mining, China became the world's biggest importer of rare earths in 2018, ahead of Japan and the United States, Adamas Intelligence managing director Ryan Castilloux said on Wednesday.
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US President Donald Trump last month ordered the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a range of magnets made from rare earths, warning that the nation's defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles.
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" The prime minister's office also said in the statement that failing to extend the license would mean Malaysia would be "unable to break the Chinese monopoly as the sole exporter of rare earths.
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It is in the midst of an acquisitions spree, bidding to buy rare-earths producer Lynas Corp, while taking over lithium miner Kidman Resources Ltd and, on Wednesday, online retailer Catch Group Ltd.
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The NDRC recently held three symposiums on rare earths to hear views from industry experts that included suggestions to enact export controls, according to a transcript of comments from NDRC spokeswoman Meng Wei.
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It has been eyeing takeover targets in 2019, buying online retailer Catch Group Ltd and bidding for lithium company Kidman Resources Ltd and rare earths miner Lynas Corp , which it abandoned last week.
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Why it matters: The investment comes in response to a threat from China, which processes most of the world's rare earths, to stop exporting them to the U.S. amid the ongoing trade war.
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Despite their name, rare earths are found in many places around the world, but the process of extraction is difficult and expensive, as it requires separating multiple different metals from a single deposit.
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The CHEOPS team is also hoping to observe Super-Earths such 55 Cancri e, located about 40 light years from Earth, and the "Mini-Neptune" HD 97658b, which is 70 light years away.
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"Japan is continuing its efforts to secure long-term supply of rare earths used in cars and consumer electronics through diversifying supply sources, developing alternatives and reinforcing recycling processes," the Japanese official said.
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Jupiter features a broad diameter that would fit nearly a dozen Earths side by side, but the massive planet spins so fast on its axis that a single day lasts a mere 10 hours.
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"The United States used to be the most important single producing country for rare earths, from a single mine called the Mountain Pass mine in southern California near the border with Nevada," said Eggert.
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China cheats by preying on weak counties, locking up their natural resources with "debt traps" in an obvious effort to gain a global stranglehold on key resources like bauxite, copper, nickel, and rare earths.
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"If China decides to ban rare earths export to the US, it would produce complex effects, including incurring certain losses on China itself," the state-run tabloid Global Times said in a column Wednesday.
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London (CNN Business)Jaguar Land Rover has joined forces with BMW to make electric motors that do not require rare earths, minerals that could be the next front in the US-China trade war.
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However, while mining heavyweights BHP Group and Rio Tinto closed 2.63% and 0.7% lower, rare earths firms such as Lynas Corporation, Northern Minerals and Peak Resources surged to close between 9% and 20.5% higher.
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China is ready to use rare earths, a group of 2100 chemical elements used in everything from high-tech consumer electronics to military equipment, to strike back at the United States, Chinese newspapers warned.
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The facility will recycle wastewater and produce hydrochloric acid and caustic soda to use in the rare earths separation process, saving the facility the added cost of buying the chemicals on the open market.
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Beijing is ready to use rare earths, a group of 17 chemical elements used in everything from high-tech consumer electronics to military equipment, to strike back at the United States, Chinese newspapers warned.
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China's Communist Party newspaper warned on Wednesday that Beijing was ready to use its influence over the supply of rare earths to strike back against the United States in an increasingly bitter trade dispute.
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The Mountain Pass mine in the United States remains on care and maintenance, although it has just been bought out of bankruptcy, ironically by a consortium built around China's Shenghe Resources rare earths producer.
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Lee-Makiyama sees this as an untenable scenario and points to China's ill-fated attempts to use rare earths as a trade cudgel in its dealings with Japan and the US in the past.
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An editorial on May 503th in the People's Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, suggested that China might restrict exports to America of rare earths, which are used in smartphones, electric vehicles and much more.
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Amid concerns the trade dispute could affect other areas such as rare earths and capital markets, China on Tuesday vowed a tough response if Trump insists on dialling up the pressure with more tariffs.
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Shares in Lynas, which have jumped 64% this year on surging rare earths prices, rose as much as 2.7% after the loan extension was announced but gave up some gains to trade up 1%.
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But some Earth-like planets, or even super-Earths (rocky planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune), could feature oceans with a small fraction to hundreds of times the volume of Earth's oceans.
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China is the world's dominant producer of rare earths -- a group of 17 prized minerals used in everything from consumer electronics to military equipment such as jet engines, missile guidance systems satellites and lasers.
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The push comes weeks after China threatened to curb exports to the United States of rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used to build fighter jets, tanks and a range of consumer electronics.
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We've not only discovered a potential fortune in manganese nodules, but a slew of other tantalizing resources, including sulfide deposits formed by underwater volcanoes, and deep sea ferromanganese crusts, which also contain rare earths.
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Greenland has been opening up to foreign companies with hopes that its vast resources in metals and minerals, including rare earths, would help finance its ambition to become independent from former colonial master Denmark.
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True, the technologies used to produce electricity from renewable resources, and the rare earths and minerals that some, including solar panels and wind turbines, rely on, could be subject to protectionism and trade wars.
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China has been actively looking to develop its own downstream rare earth industries, notably in the mining center of Baotou in Inner Mongolia, a move that would reduce its reliance on exporting rare earths.
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The push comes weeks after China threatened to curb exports to the United States of rare earths, a group of 53 minerals used to build fighter jets, tanks and a range of consumer electronics.
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He took over Barry's mantle as The Flash for over 20 years following Barry's death during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" storyline, which took the hero out of DC circulation from 1985 to 2008.
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The new rules will cover metals such as tin, copper, lead and rare earths, as well as minerals like calcium carbonate, though they do not apply to the coal industry, which has separate guidelines.
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China supplied 80% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017, when it accounted for 81% of the world's rare earth production, data from the U.S. Geological Survey showed.
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Rising tensions between the United States and China have sparked concerns that Beijing could use its dominant position as a supplier of rare earths for leverage in the trade war between the two countries.
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Rare earths are an essential component in rechargeable batteries that power electric and hybrid cars, while some of them, such as neodymium and dysprosium, are also critical to the motors used in electric vehicles.
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The $20-million sale of the Mountain Pass, California mine follows the 2015 bankruptcy of Molycorp, a public company that invested over $1 billion trying to build a U.S.-based producer of rare earths.
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Growing demand for electric motors from two industries expected to grow fast in coming years — electric cars and wind turbines — add even more urgency to the need for a secure supply of rare earths.
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If the federal government has to take action to support this enlightened strategy, such as guaranteed research and development dollars to U.S. companies that commit to buy Mountain Pass rare earths, so be it.
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China is responsible for more than 90% of global supplies of rare earths, 17 strategic metals which are used in a range of high-tech applications in renewable energy, consumer electronics and defence equipment.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The rare earths arm of state-owned China Minmetals Corporation said one of its units would halt production with immediate effect from Thursday after failing to rectify a series of environmental offences.
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China is responsible for more than 90% of global supplies of rare earths, 17 strategic metals which are used in a range of high-tech applications in renewable energy, consumer electronics and defense equipment.
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The issue took on new urgency in recent weeks after Chinese officials suggested rare earths and other critical minerals could be used as leverage in the trade war between the world's largest economic powers.
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Vancouver-based Medallion said it is seeking proposals from contractors to help build a plant to process the metals from the reddish-brown phosphate mineral monazite, a sand containing high concentrations of rare earths.
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Those are some of the special minerals — known as rare earths — that are crucial components of a long list of products: personal electronics like smartphones, televisions and hair dryers, and electric and hybrid cars.
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Venus isn't the only planet that will retrograde this month: Mercury begins its retrograde in fellow Earths sign Taurus on April 9, stirring up drama in your love life and within your creative endeavors.
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China is the world's dominant producer of rare earths — a group of 17 prized minerals used in everything from consumer electronics to military equipment such as jet engines, missile guidance systems satellites and lasers.
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On Monday, China's state media reported that Xi Jinping, China's top leader, visited a site that mines and processes rare earths, which are essential minerals for a number of manufacturers in low-carbon technologies.
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The largest rare earths producer in the world outside China, said profit after tax was A$80 million ($54.03 million) for the year ended June 30, up from A$53.1 million a year ago.
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The issue took on new urgency earlier this year after Chinese officials suggested rare earths and other critical minerals could be used as leverage in the trade war between the world's largest economic powers.
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CHINA 'DID US A FAVOUR' Rare earths are crucial for producing electric vehicles, and are found in the magnets that run motors for wind turbines, as well as in computers and other consumer products.
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This would lead to the Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, when the Silver Age ended and Barry died, in a moving, heroic and definitive ending — which was tarnished by his return in 2008.
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Shares in Lynas, which have jumped 33% this year on surging rare earths prices, rose as much as 2.7% after the loan extension was announced but gave up some gains to trade up 1%.
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Amid concerns the trade dispute could affect other areas such as rare earths and capital markets, China on Tuesday vowed a tough response if Trump insists on dialing up the pressure with more tariffs.
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Rare earths, a group of 215 elements that appear in low concentrations in the ground, are used in a wide-range of products stretching from lasers and military equipment to magnets found in consumer electronics.
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While China is the world's leading producer of rare earths — minerals found in a wide range of everyday consumer electronics — Beijing's ability to use them as a weapon is fairly limited, according to several analysts.
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Brandon Routh, who starred as DC's Man of Steel in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns film in 2006, will again don the crimson cape as the iconic character in Crisis on Infinity Earths, EW has learned.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would impose further tariffs on another $300 billion of Chinese goods, although a previous lists avoided rare earths, for which the United States relies heavily on China.
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The People's Daily, the ruling Communist Party's flagship newspaper, warned this week that China was ready to use its dominance of rare earths, crucial minerals used in electronics, to strike back in the trade war.
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It is my dream to find all of the "Earths next door" and to oversee the space telescopes that will give us the basics so we know what level of geoengineering we should plan for.
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U.S. RARE EARTHS: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in speciality motors, warning the nation's defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles.
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This data is pointing to two dominant types of exoplanets ranging between one and four times the size of Earth: dense rocky worlds (so-called super-Earths) or intermediate-sized planets with relatively low densities.
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But there are so many other star systems; there are so many other exoplanets, just in our galaxy alone, that there must be millions, billions of other Earths that have the conditions necessary for life.
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The Pentagon wants miners to describe plans to develop U.S. rare earths mines and processing facilities, and asked manufacturers to detail their needs for the minerals, according to the document, which is dated June 27.
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In December, Malaysia's Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) told Lynas - the world's biggest producer of rare earths outside China - that it must export stockpiles of a type of residue from its processing plant by Sept.
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Each technology has its advantages; direct-drive turbines are more expensive to produce as they require large amounts of raw materials, including copper, steel, and rare earths, but have lower maintenance costs over their lifetimes.
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Its fiscal 2019 shopping list includes up to 415 tonnes of rare earths, 100 tonnes of rare earth magnet stock and smaller quantities of dysprosium, europium and yttrium oxide, all elements with sensitive military applications.
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Separately, China held back exports of certain types of rare earths starting 2010, which caused prices to jump by as much as 10 times — further pushing Japan to seek other sources, according to the Journal.
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China is the world's biggest producer of rare earths, a prized group of 0003 elements used in everything from ceramics to consumer electronics, and its output quotas — typically announced twice per year — are closely watched.
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"There needs to be a major increase (in production quotas) dedicated to heavy rare earths if China is to make up for impending lack of supplies from Myanmar," Castilloux said in an email on Friday.
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The Defense Department accounts for about 1% of U.S. demand, which in turn accounts for about 9% of global demand for rare earths, according to a 2016 report from the congressional U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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They will cooperate on projects including attracting downstream rare earths customers to Malaysia, as well as commercializing certain residues from Lynas' Malaysian plant for agricultural uses, Lynas and Malaysia's MARA said in a joint statement.
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"Water can stay quite long because super-Earths can retain their atmosphere for a longer time, because they have a bigger gravity," Giovanna Tinetti, a physicist who cowrote the paper, said in the press call.
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