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Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China

Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.
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Gold is escaping from Earth’s core and other wild things we learned about the planet in 2025

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...
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Japan to test deep-sea extraction of rare-earth mud

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) said Tuesday that it will conduct a test to excavate the deep seabed off Minamitorishima, a remote Tokyo island, and collect ...
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Japan collects rare earth mud from deep waters off island in Pacific

This file photo taken on Jan. 12, 2026, shows the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology's Chikyu research vessel leaving a port in Shizuoka Prefecture to collect rare earth mud off ...