• KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    27 days ago

    This isn’t about extraction, so called rare earth elements are actually more common than you think. China on the other hand has a greater ability to process the elements to make them useable.

    Per the article

    As China effectively holds a monopoly over the supply of global heavy rare earths processing