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China produces more than 95 per cent of the world's rare earths Chinese pay for our rare earth addiction

Monday, 2 May 2011
Farmers in northern China living near a dumping ground for rare earths waste, are losing their land because of increasingly toxic pollution.
Subjects: pollution, land-pollution, mobile-phones, computers-and-technology, mineral-sands, environmental-impact, -tablets Locations: china

The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia may contain the world's richest desposits of lithium, an increasingly useful metal.Rare supply: the trace minerals powering our gadgets

Wednesday, 8 September 2010
ABC Environment Technological innovation has brought us wonderful new tools for modern life, but some experts believe supply is lagging behind demand for the rare minerals that make them possible.
Subjects: business-economics-and-finance, electronics, mining, mining, mining, science-and-technology, geology, mineral-sands, indepthfeature

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