Sentences with phrase «rare earth elements comes»

Ultimately, the scarcity of rare earth elements comes down to our own short - sightedness and the apparent low cost of business as usual — dig it up, use it, discard it.

Not exact matches

As it stands, 97 percent of the 124,000 metric tons of neodymium, dysprosium — the name means «hard to get» — and other important rare earth elements produced each year come from one place: China.

Most of them elements (erbium, yttrium, cerium, lanthanum, and the component elements of didymium) belong to the family of rare earths, a group whose classification would present problems for many years to come.

More than 80 % of 17 rare earth metals comes from China alone and, with China imposing restrictions on exportations of the elements, Honda is taking steps towards independence from them.