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alojapan.com/1297979/china-rar China rare-earth controls loom over Japan, US car production #car #China #Controls #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #Loom #news #Production #RareEarth #us TOKYO — China’s restricted exports on rare-earth metals are beginning to be felt in auto assembly plants that have halted operations because of parts shortages. Suzuki Motor last month suspended production of Swift compact cars made at a Japanese plant. A shortage of rare earths delayed suppl…

#WD launches #HDD #recycling process that reclaims #rareearth elements, cuts out #China
#WesternDigital announced it has created a large-scale #harddisk drive recycling program in concert with #Microsoft and recycling-industry partners #CMR (Critical Materials Recycling) and #PedalPoint Recycling. The new process reclaims Rare Earth Oxides (REO) containing dysprosium, neodymium, and praseodymium from hard drives, along with aluminum, steel, gold, palladium, and copper.
tomshardware.com/pc-components

Tom's Hardware · WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out ChinaBy Avram Piltch

Learned about Khalzan Buregtei #RareEarth Project (mnrec.mn) via an interview w/ Exec Dir A Tsolmon for the 1st time.

news.mn/r/2800138/

Near Khovd, dysprosium deposit.

Dysprosium's magnetic qualities important to batteries, wind turbines, nuclear control rods. 2021 🌐 production: 🇨🇳 40%, 🇲🇲 31%, 🇦🇺 20%.

#Mongolia @mongoliastudies

MNRECMongolian National Rare Earth Corp | REEBecome a strategic non-China-based supplier of the critical REE, Dy, and Nd and promote energy-efficient, sustainable development of the World.
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#Optimus humanoid robots 🤖 have electric motors in their arms that operate in a confined space and require the special magnets 🧲. #RareEarth magnets are up to 15 times as powerful as conventional iron magnets of the same size nytimes.com/2025/04/23/busines

The New York Times · Elon Musk Warns China’s Rare Earth Restrictions May Delay Tesla RobotsBy Keith Bradsher
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A colossal impact 💥 during #Mars’ late accretion could explain the unusual amount of #rare metallic elements in Mars’ mantle astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/rar

#Perseverance could detect traces of #yttrium, an element that, on Earth, is even rarer than #cerium artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/per ⚒️

A Guardian analysis of campaign finance records and corporate filings show US tech moguls who invested in mining companies operating in #Greenland, fossil fuel executives and #crypto tycoons with their own set of plans for the country collectively gave at least $243m to the president’s 2024 campaign.

#RareEarth #Minerals

(To put it in perspective, that kind of money can help build 40,000 affordable homes in a country like India).

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grabBy Tom Perkins