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USGS Releases Resource Estimate for Afghanistan Rare Earth Prospect

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2011Economy, Environmentafghan economy, afghanistan, afghans, australia, barium, bayan obo, bob tucker, canada, cerium, China, electric vehicles, emerging alternative energy technologies, helmand province, khanneshin carbonatite, lanthanum, light rare earth elements, lree, marc grossman, marcia mcnutt, mineral wealth, mountain pass, neodymium, Pakistan, phosphorus, photo voltaic cells, rare earth element, regina dubey, steve peters, strategic minerals, strontium, U.S. Geological Survey, united states, unpublished work of soviet scientists, uranium, usgs, wind power

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates at least 1 million metric tonnes of rare earth element resources within the Khanneshin carbonatite in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This estimate comes from a 2009-2011 USGS study funded by the Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO).

The Khanneshin carbonatite contains a major potential source of light rare earth elements (LREE), such as lanthanum, cerium, and neodymium. The LREE prospects in the Khanneshin carbonatite are comparable in grade to world-class deposits like Mountain Pass, CA, and Bayan Obo in China, both of which primarily contain LREE. (more…)

Etch-a-sketch with Superconductors

By Guest PostAugust 24, 2011Scienceaeppli, bianconi, catalysts, computing technology, copper, elettra synchrotron radiation facility, fractal like structures in superconductors, ibm scientists, lanthanum, london centre for nanotechnology, new generation of electronic devices, oxygen, oxygen atoms, paradigm, rare earth element, rome, sapienza university, shapes in two dimensions, superconductivity, x ray beam

Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to ‘draw’ superconducting shapes using an X-ray beam. This ability to create and control tiny superconducting structures has implications for a completely new generation of electronic devices.

Superconductivity is a special state where a material conducts electricity with no resistance, meaning absolutely zero energy is wasted. (more…)

Rare Earth Elements: The World is Rapidly Running Out and China Has Most of The Remaining Supply

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2010Economy, Politicscalifornia, cerium, China, chinese economy, europium, green economy, hybrid car batteries, iphones, ipod, lanthanum, missile-guidance systems, mountain pass, neodymium, radar systems, rare earth elements, tantalum, us military, usgs, w david menzie

Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them.

Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods. Without rare earth elements, the entire “green economy” would not be able to function, because almost all emerging green technologies use them.

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USGS Releases Resource Estimate for Afghanistan Rare Earth Prospect

Etch-a-sketch with Superconductors

Rare Earth Elements: The World is Rapidly Running Out and China Has Most of The Remaining Supply