Bob Koure
Jan 14, 2023

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As of 2014, 40% of the world's neodymium came from China, 15% from Russia. Sigh... Unless neodymium is in the giant deposit of 'rare' earths recently found in the far-north part of Sweden.

Rare earths are scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides - and neodymium is one of the lanthanides, but I haven't seen anything calling it out in specific - and I'm not enough of a geologist to know if they typically are in the same deposits.

Even so, everything I've read indicated about 10 years to get that deposit into production.

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Bob Koure
Bob Koure

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Retired software architect, statistical analyst, hotel mgr, bike racer, distance swimmer. Photographer. Amateur historian. Avid reader. Home cook. Never-FBer

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