Am I the only one who wanted to see a list of names?<p>Anyway: cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, lanthanum
The EU defines ‘about’ 30 rare earth elements: <a href="https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/critical-raw-materials_en" rel="nofollow">https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-mater...</a><p>Sweden is gamifying local mining through <i>Mineraljakten</i> or Mineral Hunting: <a href="https://www.sgu.se/mineraljakten/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sgu.se/mineraljakten/</a><p>Not sure where this is going.
This was quite interesting in how Molycorp naively handed it's near monopoly to China in the 1980s.<p>We've since seen this playbook repeated across multiple industries.<p>Lynas Rare Earths noted in it's last quarterly report that it has started it's HRE separation circuit and will begin producing Dysprosium this month (May 2025), followed by Terbium in June at it's Malaysian site.<p>Doesn't really help the US (which is why Lynas are building the Seadrift plant in Texas with DoD funding) as most of that will go to Japan. Lynas interestingly got into the rare earth business in the wake of China's ban on exporting to Japan, so their major customers are the likes of Sumitumo who put up the initial funds for the Malaysian plant.<p>Last I heard Lynas were asking for more USG funds due to issues with the planned waste water treatment which will blow out the project costs to get working. The actual draft environmental assessment document is an eye-opener as far as the minutia of requirements, despite this being a national security priority.<p><a href="https://www.listcorp.com/asx/lyc/lynas-rare-earths-limited/news/quarterly-activities-report-3181658.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.listcorp.com/asx/lyc/lynas-rare-earths-limited/n...</a><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/the-800-million-rare-earths-portfolio-of-gina-rinehart/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/the-800-million-...</a><p><a href="https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/mceip/news/docs/Lynas-Seadrift-EA-Draft-01NOV23.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/mceip/news/docs/Lynas-Se...</a>