http://en.akihabaranews.com/100568/science/japanese-scientist-found-rare-earth-mineralelement-on-pacific-ocean-seabed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japanese-scientist-found-rare-earth-mineralelement-on-pacific-ocean-seabed Live from Japan ! Thu, 23 May 2013 05:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://en.akihabaranews.com/100568/science/japanese-scientist-found-rare-earth-mineralelement-on-pacific-ocean-seabed#comment-90935 Dominic Ryan Osborne Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:26:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=100568#comment-90935 guess that guarantees thousands of more years of crapgadgets. 

]]> http://en.akihabaranews.com/100568/science/japanese-scientist-found-rare-earth-mineralelement-on-pacific-ocean-seabed#comment-90929 Anonymous Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:46:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=100568#comment-90929 There are plenty of rare earth minerals outside of China and Russia; the problem is that rem is much cheaper from China and Russia due to the cost of extraction elsewhere. Since this deposit is 6 km beneath the surface of the ocean, I highly doubt that either country will feel threatened by it.

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