Rare earths are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements that share distinctive properties and are vital to many modern technologies. Despite the name, they are relatively abundant in the Earth’s crust, but rarely found in concentrated, easily mined deposits, making extraction and processing difficult and costly.
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Finance ministers from the G7 and other major economies met in Washington to discuss ways to reduce dependence on rare earths from China, including setting a price floor and new partnerships to build up alternative supplies, ministers said. Reuters