Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Apr 19 2018 05:50am)
Ok Ghot, so for many people (i hope?) manganese nodules isnt a scoop.
I think i heard about it like what ? 15 years ago ... Or even more... Personally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_noduleAnyway it has a cost to extract, and all that is sciences & geopolitics.
Not for you :p
Magnesium is not a rare earth element, and has nothing to do with the article. But good try.
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Quote (Santara @ Apr 19 2018 05:53am)
Depth of 5700 meters.
Yeah, that's pretty deep, but hardly inaccessible. Hell, in 1960 the US Navy owned bathyscaphe Trieste, went down to just over 11,521 meters.
We can do a lot better these days.
From other articles I read about this deposit of rare earths, it seems they can just siphon mud off the bottom and on board the ship using acids can extract these rare earths.
It's still expensive, but it's a lot cheaper than having China control 95% of the world's deposits of rare earths.
This post was edited by Ghot on Apr 19 2018 04:37am