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    Japan holt seltenerdreichen Schlamm vom Meeresboden, um die Abhängigkeit von China zu verringern

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    2. RicketyEdge on

      >The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu’s successful gathered the sediment at a depth of nearly 6,000 kilometers

      Someone better check their numbers again.

    3. Own-Branch-5137 on

      >The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu’s successful gathered the sediment at a depth of nearly 6,000 kilometers near the island of [Minamitorishima](https://apnews.com/article/japan-china-warplanes-aircraft-carriers-1cab1ef448bef5ecc8fa9c0896c7662e), Prime Minister [Sanae Takaichi](https://apnews.com/article/japan-politics-takaichi-parliament-dissolution-election-74e9b32eb12a6f9823242255b92150b2) said in a statement on X.
      6000kms deep sounds pretty far ngl

    4. phiiota on

      I heard rare earth is plentiful (could be wrong) but the processing to make it into usable form is what is only done in a few places.

    5. PresentationUnited43 on

      The earths diameter is like 12,000km. They really wanted that mud if they 6000km down….

    6. OddCupcake8 on

      This seems like a smart move for Japan. Rare earths are crucial for tech, and diversifying supply chains is becoming increasingly important.

    7. ReasonablyBadass on

      Deep sea mining is considered very bad for the environment. Plenty of stuff lives of the seabed and throwing up clouds can also be harmful.

    11. CipherWeaver on

      When will people understand that rare earths aren’t rare because there are few deposits, they’re rare because minute quantities are found in mines all over the world. What’s truly rare is the capacity to refine them. 

    12. composedofidiot on

      Mining rare earths is easy and they are far more abundant than media narratives make it. The problem is refining and processing. There can be hundreds of steps and it’s a nasty, toxic process that often conflicts with environmental legislation. Many countries shut down their units but china didn’t care, hence its dominant position.

    13. VegetableWishbone on

      This is just for show, in practice it’s not economically viable to obtain and refine seabed mud that deep in any meaningful quantity.

    15. Junlian on

      I mean Rare-Earth minerals arent that rare, its the refining part that China have a monopoly over.

    16. 1-randomonium on

      That’s a technology that would be of great interest to a lot of other countries. Is it experimental or commercial scale extraction?

    17. MisterPistacchio on

      „Rare earth-rich mud“ ?
      I’m rich! Wait til I show you what I got in my back yard. ALL of my mud is rich with earth too!

    21. Hpfanguy on

      Do they want to unleash a Cloverfield? Because this is how you unleash a Cloverlfield.

    22. United_Ring_2622 on

      In 100 years when theres like 4 species of fish left were going to look as dumb as the rest of our history.

    23. OnePilotDrone on

      Deep sea mining is just insanely bad for the environment, It will kill all biodiversity, cause pollution from the sediments coming up and destroy sea lifes natural habitat from the noise pollution aswell.

      But then again seeing Japan government allows 10,000 whales to be hunted and slaughtered every year, im not even surprised at what they’re doing.

      People need to remember, rare earths aren’t rare at all, almost every large country has them. It’s the refining processes that are extremely hard. In some cases, to make 1kg of rare earth, you would need to process 10,000kg of one ore so the ratios are like 1:10000 and realistically, theres only 1-3 countries that does that at scale that I could think of.

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