Japan has announced the discovery of rare earth elements at record sea depths. The government said on Monday that a deep-sea test mission in the Pacific Ocean had retrieved sediment containing rare ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan will start testing the possibility of mining the deep seabed for rare-earth elements as concerns grow over access to ...

Japan wants to reduce its dependence on Chinese rare earths and is looking for a way to extract them domestically. Japan's mining research vessel Chikyu set sail on Monday for a mission lasting around ...

Japan would tomorrow embark on what it said is the world’s first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at a depth of 6,000m — greater than the height of Mount Fuji — to curb dependence on China. A Japanese ...