Berto Jongman: US to Fund Rare Earths Institute — Doing the Wrong Thing Righter Once Again
US to build $120m rare earth research institute By Katia Moskvitch BBC News, 11 January 2012 The US Department of Energy is giving $120m (£75m) to set up a new research centre charged with developing new methods of rare earth production. Rare earths are 17 chemically similar elements crucial to making many hi-tech products, such …