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Newly found ocean floor rare earths ‘too deep for decades’

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm
Posted in Bits of Resources, Bits of Technology | Tagged battery technology, e-waste, electric vehicles, electronics, mining, Pacific, rare earth, recycling, yttrium
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