Scientists find ‘easy’ way to extract rare earths from seafloor
While economists and geologists worry the world’s supply of rare earth metals will soon be outpaced by demand, a team of German geochemists has found a way to easily extract them from the vast deposits lying under the sea.
In a study, published last week in the Journal Applied Geochemistry, the scientists suggest rare earth metals could be mined from the solid nodes of iron and manganese found strewn across much of the deep ocean floor.
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