Japan has pulled off a technical and geopolitical milestone, hauling rare earth-rich mud from the deep Pacific seabed in a ...
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Japan's government said on Monday that it has successfully retrieved ...
Japanese researchers have reportedly succeeded in mining mud thought to contain rare earth elements from a seabed some 5,700 meters underwater.
Despite the test's success, experts remain cautious about deep-sea mining as a rare earth supply source, noting that the mission near Minamitori Island is constrained by technological hurdles, high ...