Comments on: How do We Deal With The Pollution Associated With Chinese Rare Earth Production? http://www.terramagnetica.com/2009/12/05/how-do-we-deal-with-the-pollution-associated-with-chinese-rare-earth-production/ commentary on permanent magnet materials, devices & systems :: emerging technologies, supply chain issues, industry news & trends. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Trev http://www.terramagnetica.com/2009/12/05/how-do-we-deal-with-the-pollution-associated-with-chinese-rare-earth-production/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Trev Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:37:30 +0000 http://www.terramagnetica.com/?p=856#comment-246 cienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2009) — Fierce competition over raw materials for new green technologies could become a thing of the past, thanks to a discovery by scientists from the University of Leeds. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215101708.htm cienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2009) — Fierce competition over raw materials for new green technologies could become a thing of the past, thanks to a discovery by scientists from the University of Leeds.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215101708.htm

]]> By: Lex http://www.terramagnetica.com/2009/12/05/how-do-we-deal-with-the-pollution-associated-with-chinese-rare-earth-production/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Lex Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:51:18 +0000 http://www.terramagnetica.com/?p=856#comment-223 There's only one way I can think of to deal with it - open Mountain Pass in CA / develop other REE sources in the USA and return to self sufficiency. Not easy, maybe impossible given the ecological factors. China doesn't usually take kindly to being told what to do, and they want their slice of the industrial big time. I don't see how the rest of the world can regulate their activities. Good to see growing internal pressure for environmental concern, but I'm cynical over whether protest will impede motion. It definitely seems as though the USA has been caught with its pants down in this scenario, doesn't it? I'm reading elsewhere that the USGS has been underfunded in recent times but even so, it seems surprising that the USA would allow control of strategic resources to slip away... here's a USGS article from 2002 I just discovered - they were quite aware of what was going on even back then - http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/ There’s only one way I can think of to deal with it – open Mountain Pass in CA / develop other REE sources in the USA and return to self sufficiency. Not easy, maybe impossible given the ecological factors.

China doesn’t usually take kindly to being told what to do, and they want their slice of the industrial big time. I don’t see how the rest of the world can regulate their activities. Good to see growing internal pressure for environmental concern, but I’m cynical over whether protest will impede motion.

It definitely seems as though the USA has been caught with its pants down in this scenario, doesn’t it? I’m reading elsewhere that the USGS has been underfunded in recent times but even so, it seems surprising that the USA would allow control of strategic resources to slip away… here’s a USGS article from 2002 I just discovered – they were quite aware of what was going on even back then – http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/

]]> By: Stan Trout http://www.terramagnetica.com/2009/12/05/how-do-we-deal-with-the-pollution-associated-with-chinese-rare-earth-production/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Stan Trout Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:56:52 +0000 http://www.terramagnetica.com/?p=856#comment-206 There is a similar article in the NY Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/26rare.html?hp=&pagewanted=all It is a sad lack of stewardship on a grand scale and it was completely unnecessary. The Chinese could have easily gained a dominant share of the rare earth market without taking environmental shortcuts. There is a similar article in the NY Times today

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/26rare.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

It is a sad lack of stewardship on a grand scale and it was completely unnecessary. The Chinese could have easily gained a dominant share of the rare earth market without taking environmental shortcuts.

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