Sentences with phrase «rare earth minerals»

The growing shortage of rare earth minerals underscores how truly difficult the transition to a clean energy economy will be.

Or remove mountains of rock to mine low - grade rare earth mineral deposits for solar panel films, hybrid batteries and turbine magnets?

Action is heating up in the world of rare earth minerals.

In other postings Ms Ward has blamed the pollution in China caused by mining rare earth minerals on the wind turbine industry.

The last U.S. rare earths mine was shuttered in 2002 because of a combination of environmental concerns and the fact that they could not compete with the cheaper prices for rare earth minerals being offered by China.

The key rare earth mineral to be produced at Browns Range is «dysprosium», a principal ingredient in the manufacturing of large industrial magnets that are mostly used in the clean tech sector.

Amanda Lacaze is the CEO and Managing Director of Lynas Corporation, an ASX listed company with a portfolio of aligned assets to explore, develop, mine and process rare earth minerals.

It begins with the mining of rare earth minerals, a collection of chemical elements manufactured mostly in China.

Well, now thanks to advancements in robotics, deep - sea mining is rapidly approaching, especially for rare earth minerals that can be difficult to find in commercial quantities elsewhere (lanthanum is pictured above).

I think China finally caught on to the fact that it was pricing its rare earth minerals at the uneconomic low - cost margin of extraction, not taking into account the environmental clean up costs or the replacement costs for these basically irreplaceable rare metals.

Rare earth minerals, the 17 elements used in high - tech products such as cell phones and hybrid vehicles, represent another potential source of growth for Canadians over time.

It is flush with natural resources — uranium, coal, oil, gold, and the rare earth minerals that are used in cell phones and electronics — and blessed with sparkling, pristine beaches that extend thousands of miles.

Rare earth minerals are mined in environmentally devastating ways, plastics are pollutants, and e-waste is a problem.

iii) And a grand total of eight resource stocks, topped by the infamous US Oil & Gas: About all these shit - biscuits discovered last year was ignominy... And no, just in case there's some muppets reading this, that isn't some kind of rare earth mineral.

Think about sunlight, weather systems, rare earth minerals, and electromagnetic forces, to name only a few other things.

None of these technologies have panned out: there has been no decrease in CO2 due to these technologies (maybe fracking, if you disregard methane, a green house gas) and, on the contrary, a massive increase in green house gases as well as a reliance on dodgy sources for smelting and acquiring these rare earth minerals and metals.

What if looming depletion results from government policies that forbid access to lands that might contain new deposits — as with US onshore and offshore prospects for oil, gas, coal, uranium, rare earth minerals and other vital resources?

It means that idiot eco-evangelists aren't going to look too closely at China's generally appalling environmental track record — not just the smog in Beijing and the other big cities, but also the poisoning and devastation in areas where they mine the rare earth minerals which are a vital ingredient for those bat - chomping, bird - slicing eco-crucifixes the Gwailo imagine are so eco-friendly.

I believe it is true that there has been very serious environmental damage due to rare earth mining in China, but wind turbines are by no means the only use for rare earth minerals; they have become very widely used in the modern world.

For example, a single wind turbine can contain 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 3 tons of aluminum and 700 - plus pounds of rare earth minerals.

I've got a mineral cabinet full of rare earth minerals (as well as radioactives) from all over the world.

Including photos and a great infographic, the piece delves into the rare earth minerals we use for electronic devices and where they come from — and at what cost.