{"id":3709,"date":"2013-05-28T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2013-05-28T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:17:25","slug":"world-production-of-rare-earth-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"World Production of Rare Earth Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3710\" alt=\"the future global supply of rare earth elements\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><em>Rare earth metals<\/em> or <em>rare earth elements <\/em>are a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemicalelements.com\/groups\/rareearth.html\">seventeen chemical elements <\/a>located at the bottom of the periodic table. They are key elements in the manufacture of high technology components, hybrid cars, solar panels, lasers, electronics, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As of 2010, China produced 97% of the total world production of rare earths, or 130,000 metric tons, followed by India (2%), Brazil (0.42%), and Malaysia (0.27%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The estimated demand for rare earths for 2015 will increase 54% compared to the demand in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/posts\/infographic-the-future-global-supply-of-rare-earth-elements\"><em>GOOD: Infographic: The Future Global Supply of Rare Earth Elements<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/glossary\/rare-earth-metals\"><em> IndexMundi: Commodities Glossary &#8211; Rare Earth Metals<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare earth metals or rare earth elements are a collection of seventeen chemical elements located at the bottom of the periodic table. They are key elements in the manufacture of high technology components, hybrid cars, solar panels, lasers, electronics, etc. As of 2010, China produced 97% of the total world production of rare earths, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='World Production of Rare Earth Metals' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/world-production-of-rare-earth-metals\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,24,27,29,4,31,19,35,14,30],"tags":[1360,1028,1362,1033,1034,1363,1027,1036,1022,1030,1029,1031,295,290,1025,1035,1032,1026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}