Check my understanding here: It’s not that they’re scarce, but there’s no geological process that concentrates them like copper or gold. There aren’t any neodymium seams the way there are gold seams, there’s a very little amount everywhere. So you might as well sift the entire Mojave.
Yeah there’s a reason people were saber rattling over those offshore deposits Japan claimed, and it’s not because undersea mining is cheap and efficient or “they’re on every continent what’s the big deal”
Check my understanding here: It’s not that they’re scarce, but there’s no geological process that concentrates them like copper or gold. There aren’t any neodymium seams the way there are gold seams, there’s a very little amount everywhere. So you might as well sift the entire Mojave.
Yeah there’s a reason people were saber rattling over those offshore deposits Japan claimed, and it’s not because undersea mining is cheap and efficient or “they’re on every continent what’s the big deal”