Stung by Beijing's 2010 ban, government and companies are pursuing other solutions
TOKYO -- Just before 9 o'clock on a mid-January morning, a 200-meter-long marine research vessel with a towering drilling rig set sail from Shimizu Port in central Japan for Minamitorishima, some 2,000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. Its objective: gather mud from 6,000 meters beneath the sea.
Japan initiates deep-sea rare earth mining tests to reduce reliance on China, targeting valuable minerals near Minami Torishima.
Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth…
Hybrid vessel to speed up search for mineral resources in seabed near remote island
The sample that contained rare earth was collected by a deep-sea scientific drilling boat, in a mission that Japan says was the…
Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth.
China nutzt seine Rohstoff-Übermacht mit neuen Exportbeschränkungen gegen Japan aus. Tokio will nun einen ganz neuen Weg gehen.
