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Meet the world’s rarest mineral. It was found only once
Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many ...
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The Rarest Mineral On Earth Has Only Ever Been Found In One Place
There are thousands of different minerals on Earth, but the discovery of a particular mineral is rather unique. After all, it ...
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The World's Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It's Only Ever Been Found Once
There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite ( ...
Nebraska company seeks to break China's stranglehold on rare-earth minerals
The Pentagon is betting $4.2 million that a Nebraska company can help it break China's near-monopoly on rare-earth minerals ...
America’s Rare Earth Problem Could Be Solved With Literal Trash
Rare earth elements are crucial to many technologies, and scientists say the U.S. could boost extraction from domestic ...
Enormous cache of rare Earth elements hidden inside coal ash waste
Coal ash — the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel — has been piling up across the United States for ...