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2013-03-26 Economy
Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza
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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Cool!
Posted by DarthVader 2013-03-26 00:23||   2013-03-26 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 No word on dilithium crystals however.
Posted by USN,Ret. 2013-03-26 00:45||   2013-03-26 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet another maritime thing for China and Japan to fight over?
Posted by SteveS 2013-03-26 00:51||   2013-03-26 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 If they are found around this volcano, then they are probably common around many volcanoes.
Posted by phil_b 2013-03-26 02:20||   2013-03-26 02:20|| Front Page Top

#5 OK, cue the 'anti-seabed' eco-miners.
Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-26 03:53||   2013-03-26 03:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Chicago Sanitary Canal mud, Cuyahoga River mud etc. next up on the mining claims list?
Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-26 07:41||   2013-03-26 07:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Godzilla isn't going to be happy about this, you mark my words...
Posted by Steve White 2013-03-26 07:48||   2013-03-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Godzilla isn't going to be happy about this, you mark my words...

Oh, he won't mind the mining. Those heavy metals make his skin itch.

It is the radioactive dirt from the nuclear plant they backfill it with that he will really hate as that not only makes him itch, but gives him a rash.
Posted by DarthVader 2013-03-26 09:04||   2013-03-26 09:04|| Front Page Top

#9 phil, the main islands of Japan are just covered in volcanoes, I'd think if these heavy metals were common around them, the Japanese wouldn't be going to the trouble of deepwater mining out in the middle of nowhere.

At least the site is nowhere near either of the Chinas, looks like it's halfway to Wake Island.
Posted by Mitch H.  2013-03-26 10:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2013-03-26 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 One more thing to blame for earthquakes and tsunamis.
Posted by Perfesser 2013-03-26 10:37||   2013-03-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#11 "Rare earths" are not heavy metals. Well, mostly. Neodymium for example.
Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-26 13:16||   2013-03-26 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Mitch, it seems they precipitate out around undersea volcanic vents (at least some) and there are 10,000s of vents.
Posted by phil_b 2013-03-26 16:44||   2013-03-26 16:44|| Front Page Top

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