How to Use rare earth in a Sentence
rare earth
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China replied with a shot across the bow on rare earths.
— Ben Harburg, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Chile, Vietnam and Malaysia are all home to rare earth projects.
— Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Lithium, battery, and rare earth names have had a rough start to the year.
— Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022 -
The moon has small amounts of rare earths compared to our planet.
— Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023 -
That sent the price of neodymium and other rare earths soaring.
— Charles Riley, CNN, 5 June 2019 -
Will tariffs help the US build its rare earth supply chain?
— Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2021 -
Would talk to you for an hour about rare earth minerals, sir.
— CBS News, 2 June 2024 -
The truth, however, is that rare earths are a paper tiger.
— Washington Post, 31 May 2019 -
Shares of Chinese rare earth miners plunged as much as 10%.
— Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Russia is the fourth-largest miner of rare earth metals.
— New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022 -
China has used its control of rare earths to try to get its way before.
— Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2018 -
Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore?
— IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023 -
Exports of rare earths fell in terms of value, but rose in volume, the data showed.
— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 July 2024 -
In just the past decade, demand for rare earths has skyrocketed.
— Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023 -
But the system also sets itself up to work in a world with fewer rare earth magnets.
— Roberto Baldwin, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Greenland is rich in oil and rare Earth minerals and is home to a U.S. military base.
— Morten Buttler, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2019 -
Two of the three rare earth metals used in catalytic converters are worth more per ounce than gold.
— Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2020 -
China accounts for more than 70% of global output of rare earths.
— Andrew Mayeda, latimes.com, 4 June 2019 -
One person said the standards should focus on the dangers of rare earth minerals.
— Katie Worth, Scientific American, 20 June 2022 -
The batteries use less rare earth metals than most in use today, the company said.
— Peter Valdes-Dapena For Cnn Business, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020 -
China cut its rare earths export quota in 2010 amid tensions with the United States.
— Laura He, CNN, 4 July 2023 -
Among Afghanistan’s rich resources are rare earth elements (REEs).
— Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 -
Further, 86% of the items removed at the SMA’s request were for rare earths and critical minerals.
— WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018 -
The company said the rare earth elements could be produced as a byproduct of mining iron ore.
— Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023 -
The supply of rare earth elements is still controlled by China.
— Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021 -
Extracting the raw rare earth ores, such as bastnasite and monazite, is just the upstream part of the supply chain.
— Mary Hui, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2020 -
The area also boasts dozens of mining claims for rare earth elements, now coveted by the clean tech sector.
— Dan Michalski, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Long said the United States is getting quickly squeezed out of the market for rare earth materials.
— Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020 -
China currently has the largest deposit of rare earth elements on Earth and remains the main global provider.
— Devika Rao, theweek, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Countries now want more redundancy in their supply chains for crucial products such as microchips, energy, and rare earth minerals.
— Rana Foroohar, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2022
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