Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 North of Ordinary: The Arctic Photographs of Geraldine and Douglas Moodie. The world's most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1803, are generally owned or held at museums, for viewing by patrons. We'll survive because of industry inventories and government stockpiles, but I think 2. Smith, president and CEO of Molycorp, an American company that reopened a rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, California, last year. World demand will probably exceed supply before the end of 2. Over just two months last summer, prices on cerium jumped more than 4. Dysprosium, used in computer hard drives, now sells for $2. Over the next decade China is expected to steadily reduce rare earth exports in order to protect the supplies of its own rapidly growing industries, which already consume about 6.įears of future shortages have sent prices soaring. They're hidden unless you know about them, so most people never worried about them as long as they could keep buying them. The catalytic converter on your exhaust system contains cerium and lanthanum. The battery in a single Toyota Prius contains more than 2. Rare earths are also essential to a host of green machines, including hybrid cars and wind turbines. Magnets made with them are much more powerful than conventional magnets and weigh less that's one reason so many electronic devices have gotten so small. The list of things that contain rare earths is almost endless. But deposits large and concentrated enough to be worth mining are indeed rare. A handful of dirt from your backyard would probably contain a smidgen, maybe a few parts per million. Rare earths, as the elements are called, were discovered beginning in the late 1. Yet many of the high- tech devices we depend on-cell phones, laptops, and hundreds of others-would not exist without an obscure group of elements mined, sometimes illegally, in those three and other regions of China.
Most of us would be hard- pressed to locate Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, or Guangdong on a map. Rare Earth Elements - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine. The earliest sale on the list (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by. This is the collection of most expensive painting or the highest known prices ever paid for painting. The magnificent, baroque-style palace and museum.
The Louvre is the world’s largest museum and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history.
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