You wanna play hide and seek with love, well let me wemind you (It's all wight) Elmer Fudd Band coverunobtainium
I hope that North Dakota coal goes out once in awhile to have some fun.
All that studying could make it kind of boring.
You know, the coal could go out surfing or mountain climbing or whatever other recreational activities there are for coal in North Dakota.
“In China, they have an abundance of heavy rare earth elements and it’s easier for the country to extract and concentrate them.”
What they mean is that China doesn’t have to follow strict environmental or health and safety rules. If the greenies REALLY cared about “Mother Earth” they would promote mining in America where we do have strict regulations. I bet they might even be convinced that to promote mining we could reduce our regulations a bit. Going from 5 ppm to 10 ppm allowed here would reduce the 10,000 ppm getting dumped into Chinese rivers.
Underground abandoned burning coal mines in China are rampant due to their poor procedures. They churn out more CO2 in a year than all the cars and trucks in the U.S.
One of the byproducts of rare earth element extraction is Thorium which happens to be very useful as a nuclear power source.
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
You wanna play hide and seek with love, well let me wemind you (It's all wight) Elmer Fudd Band coverWhere’s all the fly ash piles left over from burning North Dakota coal? Not incorporated as concrete filler, I hope.
The REE should be concentrated in the fly ash.
Someone came up with a new element that was totally inert. Govermentonium or something. It had 365 inert particles that made up the nucleus. Anyone remember the whole bit?