Molten Gold Strands in Rare Earth Color Collection

Molten Gold Strands in Rare Earth Color Collection China Holds The World Hostage In Rare Earth Metals read more at http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-13/markets/30061175_1_rare-earth-export-quotas-metals Not many people in the world, especially in the West, realize the crisis that is confronting all the countries with the exception of China due to rare earth metals. Despite their name, rare earth metals are fairly abundant in the Earth's crust. However, due to their geochemical properties they are typically dispersed and not often found or concentrated in economically exploitable forms which are known as rare earth minerals. These minerals contain one or more rare earth elements as major metal constituents. It is this very scarcity of these minerals on Earth that led to the term "rare earth.” Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-13/markets/30061175_1_rare-earth-export-quotas-metals#ixzz1pbf2huCk See Rare Earth Colors at http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-13/markets/30061175_1_rare-earth-export-quotas-metals com Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium