source：Reuters(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in specialty motors, warning that the nation’s defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles.Attention is growing on rare earths, an obscure grouping of 17 minerals used to build weapons, consumer electronics and a range of other goods. There are no known substitutes.Trump said that the United States did not have enough capacity to make samarium cobalt rare earth permanent magnets, which can withstand high temperatures and are resistant to corrosion. They...
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source：The Star OnlinePETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan has changed its stand over rare earth mining and is now planning to open more rare earth plants, says Datuk Leong Kim Soon.The MCA Publicity Bureau deputy chairman said before the 14th General Election, Pakatan proposed to disallow any rare earth refinery from being constructed in Malaysia while it was still an opposition coalition.However, now that it is power, the coalition plans to open rare earth plants all over the country.He said that the Pakatan government has also failed to shut down the Lynas Advanced Material Plant (LAMP) - a promi...
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source：Ames TribuneThe future of cheaper, cleaner, more precise and energy-efficient refrigeration, the seamless shapeshifting of elemental metals and the geopolitics of rare earth metals were all on display during Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Daniel Simmons’ tour of the Ames Laboratory on Tuesday.“Ames has some of the most important critical materials, and has been working on them for the past 70 years,” Simmons said. “One of the things that’s been helpful about visiting Ames is seeing the work they do on mater...
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source：CNBCOn the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the leader of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave his predictions for the future of the space industry and how it could be a lucrative enterprise much sooner than most investors think.NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, for example, that harvesting rare-earth metals from the surface of the moon will be possible in “this century.”“There could be tons and tons of platinum group metals on the moon, rare-earth metals, which are tremendously valuable on Earth,” Bridenstine told CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” on ...
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