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14th July 2018, 10:15 PM | #1 |
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Rare Earth Metals
This article seems the most comprehensive I have read on the subject
https://phys.org/news/2016-06-dypros...mri-scans.html In the comment section is "apparently, the Alberta Tar Sands tailing ponds are chock full of REE's. What's the holdup in exploiting that instead of creating more and more "tailing ponds" creating more fossil fuels" Maybe someone knows a lot more about this. |
14th July 2018, 11:34 PM | #2 |
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The main deal with "rare" earth elements, is that they aren't.
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15th July 2018, 12:10 AM | #3 |
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17th July 2018, 05:15 AM | #4 |
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17th July 2018, 06:58 AM | #5 |
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Rare earth metal includes trivium, octavarium and welcomehomesanitarium.
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17th July 2018, 02:37 PM | #6 |
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17th July 2018, 04:09 PM | #7 |
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That seems like a pretty silly comment. You can't exploit REMs instead of fossil fuels because REMs aren't a fuel. In a perfect world, we'd mine all the fuel out of the Alberta Tar Sands, *and* mine all the REMs out of the tailing ponds... Where "perfect" means "the Alberta Tar Sands tailing ponds are a cost-effective source of REMs".
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17th July 2018, 07:28 PM | #8 |
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