Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARS May 6, 2025 How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holes Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.
