In order to crack down on illegal mining, pollution and modernize the country''s mostly lowtech industry China consolidated its rare earth industry under six large ...
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposits.
and other rare earth metals are essential for solar cells, cell phones, computer chips, medical imaging, jet engines, defense technology, and much more.
Rare Earth Elements (REE) are becoming increasingly important in electronic devices used in the defense, alternative energy, and communications industries. Minable ...
China produces nearly 90% of the world''s rare earths and its downstream industry consumes some 70% of the 17 elements used in a variety of hitech industries ...