Although Wang Jianguo knows little about rare earths mining, he is an accidental expert on its consequences. A short walk from the 43-year-old former farmer's dilapidated brick home in Xinguang ...
Read MoreThe mining of rare earth metals, used in everything from smart phones to wind turbines, has long been dominated by China. But as mining of these key elements spreads to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, scientists warn of the dangers of the toxic and radioactive waste generated by the mines and processing plants.
Read MoreChina's ion-adsorption rare earth resources, mining consequences and preservation X. Jin Yanga,n, Aijun Lina, Xiao-Liang Lib, Yiding Wuc, Wenbin Zhoud, Zhanheng Chene a Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China b Department of Environmental Economics, Chinese Academy for …
Read MoreA new understanding of how volcanic processes form deposits of rare earth metals, vital to everyday modern technology, is revealed in a …
Read MoreMeasured and indicated resources of rare earths in the United States are estimated at 2.7 million tons. While the United States has reserves of rare-earth elements in California and other Western states, those reserves have been "undercut" by low-production costs in China due to far less environmental regulation.
Read MoreThe list of environmental concerns that can be connected with rare earth elements is not a brief one. Throughout the cycle of mining processes that rare earth elements go through, there is potential for negative effects on the environment. Extracting rare earth elements begins with mining. This is followed by the refining process, and then ...
Read MoreIf rare earth resources are not mined and developed properly, not only does it result in economic losses for countries, but it also does great harm to global ecotopes, especially during the processes of mining, refining and recycling, which may result in serious environmental consequences. A particular hazard is mildly radioactive slurry ...
Read MoreLanthanum, a rare earth element, was applied because of its increasing importance in methylotrophy. We used co-occurring strains isolated from Lake Washington sediment that are involved in methane utilization: a …
Read MoreSo mining of any natural resources always poses environmental consequences on the area where the resources are mined, but what is really challenging for rare earth elements is the refining process, because of what Oscar also mentioned, the …
Read MoreResidents of areas of Kachin State where rare earth is mined are left to face the environmental consequences. After companies finish mining a site, they move on and leave behind a barren landscape, said a Kachin State-based environmental activist who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read MoreRequest PDF | On Oct 1, 2013, X. Jin Yang and others published China's Ion-adsorption Rare Earth Resources, Mining Consequences and Preservation | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
Read MoreDec 15, 2021 // Rare earth elements are increasingly in demand as a core component of numerous industries collectively worth trillions. However, problematic economics and supply chains around the extraction of these elements make formulating policy for domestic extraction difficult, writes YPFP Fellow Carey K Mott.
Read MoreMining of copper, iron ore and rare earth minerals also involve similar environmental consequences. All three are essential in solar power plants and electric cars that are supposed to lead to a ...
Read MoreRare earth metals, hard-to-find materials, with unfamiliar names such as lanthanum, neodymium and europium, are used in wind and solar energy projects, but dwindling supplies could hinder a roll-out of low carbon technologies and slow China's shift away from coal power. These compounds, which are highly toxic when mined and processed, also take a …
Read MoreElectronic waste (e-waste) contains numerous chemicals harmful to human and ecological health. To update a 2013 review assessing adverse human health consequences of exposure to e-waste, we systematically reviewed studies reporting effects on humans related to e-waste exposure. We searched EMBASE, PsycNET, Web of Science, CINAHL, and PubMed for …
Read MoreMining the consequences of the rare earths industry. Excerpted from "RARE: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Needs" by Keith Veronese, published by Prometheus Books, 2015. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. Prior to the rise of rare earth mining in China, the United States dominated the world scene.
Read MoreAnother example of harmful dust generated is flue dust, a byproduct of mining fluorine. According to the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, every ton of REE produced generates 8.5 kilograms of fluorine and 13 kilograms of flue dust, waste materials which contain the heavy metals discussed above (Schuler et al, 2011).
Read MoreRare earths, a global giant should be created in China. Global rare metals giant set to emerge in China, announcement could fall this month, reveals Wall Street Journal. This new company will be created from the merger of several Chinese state-owned companies in the rare metals sector. The new company will be called in French "the Chinese ...
Read MoreYet rare earth elements aren't actually that rare on Earth. What is rare is finding these elements in a minable deposit. ... And then there are the questions of the consequences of deep-sea mining.
Read MoreRare earth elements are widely distributed throughout the earth's crust, but generally in low concentrations. The concentration of individual REEs depends on the type of mineral deposit being mined, and REEs are often found alongside radioactive elements such as thorium and uranium (Rhodes 2011). Production is thus geographically limited to ...
Read MoreA new technology for rare-earth elements chemical separation has been licensed to Marshallton Research Laboratories, a North Carolina-based manufacturer of organic chemicals for a range of industries. Developed by scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory in the ...
Read MoreFrom phones to fighter jets, a range of devices and machines rely on rare earth elements that are mined and refined largely in China. Disruptions to this supply can have wide-ranging consequences, but the understanding of how those disruptions play out in global markets is limited.
Read MoreThe rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or (in context) rare-earth oxides, or the lanthanides (though yttrium and scandium are usually included as rare-earths) are a set of 17 nearly-indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare-earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as …
Read MoreAlthough rare earth prices in 2017 are much lower than their peaks in 2011, rare earth users remain vulnerable to the consequences of potential Chinese policy. Five policy areas are of special interest.
Read MoreChina eliminated rare-earth oxides (REO) export restrictions in 2014, causing a fall in the REE prices in the international markets (Wang et al., 2015). Rare-earth elements are incorporated in acces-sory minerals in various rocks, but the most commercially significant sources, as reviewed by Kanazawa and Kamitani (2006) and more recently
Read MoreChina's production of rare earth minerals increased by an annual average of 40% between 1978 and 1989 ( Fig. 1) and has provided more than 90% of the world's supply since 2001 ( Su, 2009, Chen, 2011, Anonymous, 2012 ). As a result, China's rare earth reserve has been steadily decreasing from 75% in 1970 to 23% in 2011 ( Chen, 2010a, Chen, 2011 ...
Read MoreFrom phones to fighter jets, a range of devices and machines rely on rare earth elements that are mined and refined largely in China. Disruptions to this supply can have wide-ranging consequences, but the understanding of how those disruptions play out in global markets is limited. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National …
Read MoreRare earth metals cause harm to humans by getting inside the body through the mouth, skin and respiratory tract and via injections. It is removed from the body through the body via bile discharge and urine. Those metals which remain in the body have harmful effects. Let us look at one such outbreak that happened in Indonesia due to tin mining.
Read MoreGiven the consequences of leadership in both the green and digital arenas, it is not surprising that access to critical raw materials has become a geopolitical battleground. Keywords: climate change, critical raw materials, rare earths, geopolitical competition, ...
Read MoreLanthanides are the rare earth elements of the modern periodic table i.e. the elements with atomic numbers from 58 to 71 following the element Lanthanum. They are called rare earth metals since the occurrence of these elements is very small (3×10-4 % of Earth's crust). They are available in 'monazite' sand' as lanthanide orthophosphates.
Read MoreBut mining rare earth metals can produce toxic waste, which in China has been linked with crop devastation and human health crises due to water contamination. ... But the consequences of rare ...
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