Nikkei: Japan to develop seabed mining of rare earth materials

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By mmillikinDec 27, 2022, 8:30 am158 pts
The Nikkei reports that in 2024, Japan will begin to extract rare earth materials for electric vehicles and hybrids from sea bottom mud in an area off Minami-Torishima Island, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. The government’s aim is to reduce the country’s…

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