Japan months away from running out of yttrium as China cuts exports 98% (theoregongroup.com)

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

True as well, but afaik, Canada has a considerably large amount of proven RE reserves, basically the most after China and Russia.

My numbers there might be slightly off, but I'd be thinking Central and South America would be primarily getting couped for oil or perhaps farm/pasture land.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

The bottleneck is refining capacity, not ore. A bunch of countries have rare earths, but only China has the factories, skilled workforce and scientists.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Doesn't Brazil have the most after China?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

https://rare-earth-mining.com/top-10-rare-earth-reserves-by-country/

If this is accurate, then yes, you are evidently correct, and I did not know that.

So thanks for spurring me to look into it!

If I'm understanding this right, Canada likely has more than Brazil overall, but Brazil's are proven, located, and extraction is more mature, whereas Canada's are still in the exploration phase, thus are not yet proven.