/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/rare-earth-monopoly-will-break-so-decrees-the-world&quot;Ren Limin, a worker at the Jinyuan Company&#39;s smelting workshop, pours the rare earth metal Lanthanum into a mould near the town of Damao, in China&#39;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region October 31, 2010.&quot; (via Reuters &amp; David Gray) There are 1...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/rare-earth-monopoly-will-break-so-decrees-the-worldThu, 22 Mar 2012 20:09:23 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d0ced24d-6f65-4c7a-97af-f6c81862d5f8DAB0<p>If these rare earth metals are that valuable, then why haven&#39;t the exploration and processing of these metals not increased?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plus I would not be surprised if there were not tons, and I mean literally tons of these metals in junk yards and mine debris.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to hurt the chinese, cut off their oil and grain imports.&nbsp; They can&#39;t eat rare earth metals.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just a thought.</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=13800&AppID=45&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">