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Rare earth metals abundant in deep-sea mud

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/07/04/science-rare-earth-elements.html

“It turns out that those elements are so abundant on the bottom of the ocean that the mud covering just one square kilometre of ocean floor in the Pacific Ocean could supply one-fifth of the current annual world consumption, according to a new study published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience…

The deposits in the eastern South Pacific are nearly twice as rich as the land deposits in China. They are also much higher in heavy rare earth elements — the kind that are more important in technology products — than those in China.”