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Millions of tons of rare earth elements found:

Millions of tons of rare earth elements found:

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/asia/japan-rare-earth-metals-find-china-economy-trnd/index.html

Japan finds major source of rare earth elements, will throw monkey wrench into China's monopoly. Will be game changer, a really big deal.

The US has reopened rare earth mines but are way behind in any production but this Japanese island will change everything for the better, my guess is rare earths will be half price when Japan gets production pumped up.

It is said we will have literally hundreds of years of rare earths from that one find.

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The Chinese definitely has a monopoly right now, not so in the past and now probably not so in the future, that was just a comment on the reality of the situation, not saying anything about the politics of the issue.

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Not sure what your comment has to do with the price of rare earths.

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Well of course, since rare earths are a minor part of their total economy. It's just one business.