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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (202045)7/17/2021 7:36:20 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (2) of 206184
 
In spite of their name, there's nothing rare about "Rare Earths" aka lanthanides. They're quite abundant, the rarest is as common as Tungsten and some as common as Nitrogen.

These metals were named "Rare Earths" in 1788 when a "never before seen" black mineral made up of several rare earth oxides was found in Ytterby Sweden.

1788 when Rare Earth were mistakenly thought to be "rare"


We've actually come a long way since then, over the past 230 years.

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