Sentences with phrase «rare earth mines»

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has cut China's target output from rare earth mines by 8.1 percent this year — alongside cooling measures for other commodities, including polysilicon — and is forcing mergers of mining companies in order to improve technical standards.

The world is scrambling to open up new sources and reopen old ones, such as Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine in California which used to supply the majority of the world's demand but has been mothballed since 2002.

Rare earth mining destroys a lot of trees and habitats, so does ewates and petrol.miqning for plastics and such, I am just not convinced they are any greener as it stands.

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.

Not exact matches

The North is sitting on US$ 6 trillion worth of minerals, according to a South Korean state - owned mining company, including rare earth metals, which are used to build everything from smart cars to iPhones.

Markets around the world saw prices for precious metals, rare earth elements and strategic metals deteriorate to the point where costs exceeded price, and mines began to falter.

Palladium — one of the rarest elements on earth and mined almost exclusively in Russia and South Africa — is the smallest precious metals market, making its prices particularly vulnerable to such speculative trading.

«We also developed a new use for cerium, which is an over-produced rare earth that is a burden on mining,» King says.

A new Amazon campus will not be a «factory» in the traditional sense, but the information age requires factories for devices and mines for «rare earth» minerals.

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

Unocal «didn't think there would be a need for high - purity products,» explains chemist John Burba, chief technology officer for Molycorp, the company hoping to reopen rare earth production at the Mountain Pass Mine.

«Mining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'sMining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'smining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company's cost.

Until the 1990s, the U.S. was the major supplier of rare earths, largely out of one mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., owned by oil company Unocal, now part of Chevron.

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

The rare - earth mineral mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., run by Molycorp.

Australia has far fewer rare earths overall than the US, but the ore in its Mount Weld mine contain the highest concentration of the elements known anywhere in the world.

Since the mine was completed in 2008, ore has been mined and is now stockpiled, ready for its rare earths to be extracted.

He believes Molycorp, which invested $ 895 million to modernize the mining operations here, could seize as much as a third of the global market for rare - earth minerals when the revamped Mountain Pass facility becomes fully operational next year.

What's unique about Molycorp is that it's trying to harvest rare - earth minerals in an environmentally friendly way, or at least as environmentally friendly a way as a mine can manage.

The center of rare - earth mining there is Baotou, a city in Inner Mongolia with 2.3 million residents that's become something of a poster child for mining's ecological wreckage.

Molycorp's Smith believes his company can rewrite the way vital rare - earth minerals are mined and processed.

The Chinese government has also increased efforts to reduce the ecological damage of rare - earth mining.

Before 1984, the United States mined virtually all the rare earths it needed at the Mountain Pass mine in California.

The company has come up with a proprietary method that it believes is the answer to the toxic mess that's defined much of the world's rare - earth mining.

But between the price hikes and the threats of rare earths shortages, mining operations in the United States and other countries could soon be on the rise.

The bill also contains authorization for DOE to fund a loan - guarantee program designed to restart U.S. rare earth - mining operations.

In that year, Frenchman Eugène - Anatole Demarçay isolated the element as an impurity in samples of another rare earth, samarium (named, indirectly, after Russian mine official V. E. Samarsky - Bykhovets).

(Molycorp Minerals — the biggest rare - earth mining operation in the United States — optimistically calls them «the green elements.»)

In April, China took steps to keep prices high by extending a national ban on rare - earth exploration and the opening of new mines.

«Properties of minerals differ between mines, so we aim to establish the optimal methods to produce high - quality rare - earth products,» says Yoshiaki Igarashi, chief representative of the Hanoi office of the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, which oversees the new centre.

As with rare earths, cobalt mining practices have been mired in controversy.

Observations Regarding Past and Potential Future Mining and Its Impacts At Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: Potential Rare Earth Element Mining and Uranium Mine Remediation.

Included in this issue are articles on ore processing, rare earths, bioleaching and seafloor Mining.

Unlike diamonds mass - produced in industrial mines, hot - forging is actually a small batch process making the gems very rare (far less than.01 % of the quantity of diamonds mined from the Earth.)

NNN often appears basic on the surface but under the immediate crust are layers of rich soil, precious gems, and rare earths that can be mined and refined into the opportunities that drive positive life - altering relationships and classroom culture.

On the other hand, ebooks (and most tablet - like devices such as Driods and iPads, etc.) have intricate circuitry that requires so - called rare - Earth minerals, many of which are being strip - mined out of rainforests and other fragile ecosystems.

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

Ebooks are not green, the batteries alone are an environmental disaster and mining for rare earth isn't sustainable or good for the environment.

The rare earth metals mining industry is one rife with issues.

More generally it is actually highly doubtful that even enough rare earths and specific indispensable transition metals might ever be mined in order to implement renewables and electrification of economy worldwide at appropriate scale.

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).

- Second, mining for rare earths is tricky, and dangerous.

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

The best performing mining sector of 2017 so far isn't gold or any precious metal... and it isn't lithium or even some kind of rare earth element.

The last prevent mining of phosphates (used as fertilizer) and many rare earths (which are found in conjunction with thorium) and used for just about everything electronic.

The steel, copper, lithium, cobalt, rare - earth elements, fiberglass, and other raw materials to build all those turbines, batteries, and transmission lines would require massive quantities of earth removal, mining, processing, smelting, and manufacturing — much of it in developing countries under dangerous, inhuman conditions.

And have you any idea how for example rare earth metals to be used in the production of your beloved windmills are mined?

Whether it's research on the extraction of rare earth elements from acid mine drainage, biomass growth and conversion, improving renewable energy technology, or enhancing processes that enable us to better utilize our natural resources, we are proud to be a driving force behind the responsible development of our energy resources.

I notice that China has passed the US in CO2 production and has polluted lakes to produce the rare earths to build our ecologically correct infrastructure, is killing their people mining coal and building coal powerplants... Damn, you just can't catch a break can you.

So deep sea mining of rare earths for EV batteries, solar panels, bird killing windmills, pollution by heavy metals, reduction of arable land by renewables is of no concern to you as long as we have a CO2 TAX and produce useless sources of energy.