Rare earths are a word that has been found in recent months on the occasion of global developments, whether it is the war in Ukraine, or the world trade war that Trump declared. They were first discovered in 1787 when Swedish Lieutenant Lieutenant Carl Axel Arrhenius found a strange black stone near the village of Ytterby. The chemists of the time called it “rare land” because no one on the planet had seen anything similar. Since then, this characterization has been established and has been used to this day, two centuries later. So, are rare lands rare? Only in the name, because in practice they are found everywhere. They are so abundant that they are “hidden” in common view, while some minerals exceed quantities of common ores. The issue is not about their abundance, but the conditions for their extraction. Geologically they are common, but mining and processing – with the second process cannot be avoided – destroy the environment to a very significant degree. Eg, some rare […]
Source: News Beast
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