Japan pulls minerals from seabed
TOKYO — Japan stated Monday it has efficiently drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing uncommon earth minerals from the seabed close to a distant island, because the nation seeks to…
Japan’s Seabed Rare Earth Mud Extraction: Challenges in Industrialization
The first batch of uncommon earth mud mined by the exploration vessel “Chikyu” (Photo offered by the “Strategic Innovation Creation Program” of the Cabinet Office/R Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science…