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Stories about: deposits

Huge Load of Rare Earth Elements Found in the US Rare-Earth minerals (REM) are chemicals used throughout the high-tech industry today, from making wind turbines and hard drives to creating magnets for speakers and hybrid or electric cars. But the main problem with these compounds is, as the name dictates, that they are very rare. At this point, China is the country... 9 March 2010 03:18 GMT How Oil Gets Trapped in Deposits Denmark has in its coastal waters a fairly significant amount of oil, but the shape, location, and formation method of the deposits have been anyone's guess until recently. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has come up with an explanation of how the oil is placed under the ocean floor, and,... 11 May 2009 10:58 GMT