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Japan months away from running out of yttrium as China cuts exports 98% (theoregongroup.com)

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

The bottleneck is refining capacity, not ore. A bunch of countries have rare earths, but only China has the factories, skilled workforce and scientists.

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