Rare Earth Metals: Uses, Minerals, Geology, Prospecting: Strategic Metals for we need for Technology 

I am a geologist from Brazil. We are now experiencing a boom regarding REM projects around here. What an awesome class. Thanks a lot for sharing. Cristiano

I always love watchingwtching your informative videos, Chris. Buy his book, guys!

Thank you, Chris. Good information to keep a look out for these when we are up in the mountains prospecting....thanks again.

Chris is amazing at explaining this stuff, thats why I purchased his book. great work sir big fan of your work.

By the way, thanks for the video. I love watching your videos. You always have great information to give.

Wow! I always learn sooo much from you. Can't thank you enough.

Another great lesson, thanks Chris

Hi Chris! Loved your video - extremely relevant and impartial information which made for a terrific educational video :)

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Thanks Chris!

Wow, I have to sit down. There's so many rare earth minerals it makes my head spin. And forget trying to pronounce them. But kudos to you for being able to do so. Great video. Makes me wonder how many I actually have held or tried to hit a Lizard with (and missed) LOL i probably should just stick to gold and silver but platinum would be nice also. As is I could be standing on the biggest and most concentrated rare earth deposit and never know it.

Excellent. Well done!

Thank you so much for sharing :). I'm about to finish the Geology degree and begin my research career. That was soooo helpful for my work

Great discussion on the importance of rare earth metals

I liked the way you explained, great info I have many learned thanks Chris.

I learn lot of things from your vedios thank you

Great info. Thanks.

Thank you for the video, all this information is really useful for my master's. Keep doing this amazing job, I really like your way of how you explain geology.

Great info and enthusiasm in explaining 👍

Great video Chris, Thanks

Interesting, I don't know much at all about rare earth minerals. Thank you for the information.

Great infomation as always

THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH CHRIS IT MAKES ME THINK OF THE TOWN OF RHYOLITE AND WHEN JEFF WILLIAMS IS OUT PROSPECTING HE'S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT MONSONITE ,

I just wanted to say thank you from my home here in Shoshoni Wyoming I'm an old guy 70 years and been a rock hound since I could walk anyway thank you very much sir very educational and hope to meet you someday best wishes and God bless

Nice video Sir 🙏

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Thanks for the video, Chris. Thorium might become a hot item when they succeed in making a "clean" nuclear reactor with it.

Thanks again for your in-depth and methodical explanation of the REE minerals and exploration for those minerals (:o)

I always enjoy your content Chris and I'm glad to see you cover this topic. I collect the elements of the periodic table and I have all but three of the rare earth metals which I'll end up buying eventually. I've extracted and purified some of the rare earths on my own from old broken rare earth magnets, ferrocerium rods and a few other sources I'm saving up in storage into a hopefully economically viable volume to process eventually. It's a personal hobby, so it only needs to be economically viable one time really.

Thankyou!

Thank you for your easy-to-understand information on rare earth metals. Rare earth metals suddenly became sexy from commodity trading perspective. People should know better about rare earth metals in order to use it properly. Very good 👍

What a lesson.please i need of it sir or one by one go in details to end (mining).Thank you God bless you sir.

Chris I thought that there were some rare earth elements in the southern calif desert. Oops you answered my Question. Seems like need to go back to the desert and figure out The problems.

Dad made fine career w big tungsten mine in Cali--told me back in the '80's "California has run out mining." Considered investing in MP, did not realize how major they once were. Great to see them seemingly reborn even if only 10% of US requirements.

Pertinent topic Sir. (brand new here, nice work)

Privately owned North American Strategic Minerals ( NASM ) recently made an interesting announcement about their Rare Earth Geologic model which has huge potential...

Its anice video explaining briefly the complete life cycle of the Rare earths.

Interesting content Sir !! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 REEs beneficiation techniques is as difficult as separation of Al & K from feldspar.

Chris greetings from Kenya again. I do not know if you remember but I talked to you earlier on comment section I went prospecting and boy you can't believe staff I found I think might have stumbled on grounds very rich in many minerals which include CU,PB,AG,AU, PT group and many more. If I get hold of your email I might send you some pics. Anyway I wanted to tell you thank you for inspiring some guy from very far away and let it never be said that you never made a world a better place. Now I am trying to work out how I can get a small testing facility since there are no fire assay people here. If you do not mind I will keep you posted.

This video just came up tonight so my comment is late, but, I think it's important for prospectors to know about the hazards that can accompany working with certain minerals and elements. I worked with beryllium 50+ years ago, there wasn't as much knowledge about it back then. In the last few years I've dealt with the after effects, but consider myself fortunate compared to some of my coworkers. Do your homework before you start prospecting, the life you save might be your own.

Great video.. I am very Interested in Boro elements and the Borax-Boric acid uses for nutricuticals.

Chris. Many Thanks for your reply and link. I guess that there may be ancient sedimentary deposits of Monazite rich sand that hardened to sandstone, or perhaps clays rich in other rare earths now metamorphosed to slate etc?

What a great resource I found from googling around. I was wondering if you had any insight about rare earth mineral deposits on the moon? The Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly on the far side of the moon and Tycho Crater's central peak seem like it has some cool, undiscovered rare earth minerals. Idk, geologists dreamjob...

Sounds like all of the rare earths can be classified under Onurbum... cause that's where you can sit for the rest of your life if you find a good deposit! :)

this is VERY informative. Would you do one about indium?

Thanks for great talk. Is there a specific exploration programe for REE. What tools what methods what analysis one can use?

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Excellent channel Chris At what ppm do the rare earth's become economic either as a primary ree deposit or as secondary metals in an ie. base metal deposit.

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And here I thought you lived in California. So I have to figure you got out while you still could. How does it feel to be a free American. Lots of love and envy from California. OH TO BE FREE AGAIN.

have you heard about these metal being concintrated in modules near black smokers?

Good explaination Bro.....not 100% at least.....better than knowing nothing...

Hi i have rock that weigs 1.334 kilos (alot for its size) i thought was metall because of its weight. its very gold shiny and looks like pure gold it is not magnetic. There is a bit of crystal in it, a spot of rust but looks like processed gold. If it is real how much can i expect to get for it? Its larger than a baseball.

Chris I have a question. Should I buy a radiation detector to look for some of those rare earth?

Like how rare earth llc and Goldman /Sachs and the bank of montreal are looking into new york state property. We have alot of yytrium and other rare earths in upstate ny.

It seems the situation with rare earths is a goldmine of opportunity for the inorganic chemist. Some areas of interest would be • Making the toxic waste from rare earth manufacture harmless or even into something useful. • Finding better ways to manufacture rare earths • New sources. It seems that their are numerous topic for PhD students to base a dissertation on.

belong all lanthenides and actenides to the same group/family 3 in the periodic tabke, even though those elements show up in 7 different rows in the table?

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Can the rare earths be separated by float teck ?

Dearest sir i want to purchase ur published fist full of gold here in Pakistan for last two years it is not available in market.Guide me in this regards.

Sir i have a stone here the color is blue, i dont know what is it...

Hi Chris, I would love to show you some really unusual finds that for the life of me figure out what it is. Anyway to contact you?

Lots of rare earth in the southwest USA. Seen rich areas of magnetic. Not sure what the names were. USA has ( reserves ).

Consider me subscribed good sir.

Hi there! One idea that will help you sell more copies! Since you are already selling your book on Amazon.com, Why not have it also published in the Kindle format. I've looked at the price, but I hate the taxes! To where I live, taxes on it are as much as the price of the book itself. To me the book is a curiosity, so I am happy to pay the courier, but that high taxes is (politically) a big NO.

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Did U go to the Colorado School of Mines? Why is the US so far behind in developing these rare elements?

was trying to figure out why Darwin and his best buddy loved my mountain. Were all in love with our little Marylin here in South wales UK. Orange stained rocks everywhere, worse since the mine shaft blow out after that earthquake (I suspect) damaged some shafts in the worlds wettest coal seam few years ago. Was very loud, fault lines near me. Was also very loud couple of months back when our street turned orange thanks to our new geyser from all those shafts. We live on the Neath disturbance apparently, in UK info is very censored and local governments concerned that educated public might be thieves, even though its all perfectly legal with no protected sights. The changing geology between Drummau mountain and the Neath valley in a short distance is shocking every 100 yards or so. It seems I might be living in a very interesting geological location, what's the most valuable substances I aught to be looking out for in your opinion? We have many coal tips, slag piles....also orange, red and purple staining in many rivers. Big glaciers in the past and huge tectonic pressure creating our huge coal field endless valleys and a couple of tectonic boundaries and thrust faults. I thought this might be an excellent new hobby for stimulation and exorcise for our whole family, but I was hoping you might be able to tell me some good tips to make day trips worth while :)

I need to show you these rear rocks

Where to find rare earth?

1951 Principles of Chemistry "0ne pound sample of gadolinium sulfate, brought into contact with a 1000 gauss magnet, causes the temperature of the sample to drop in temp to 1 Kelvin"

Sir, can I contact you. I have a rare mineral too.

If a person believes that he has found a rear metal deposit how should he go about finding a lab to have it tested?

Our rock has all of the rare earth elements except promethium in it and has a total of 60 elements and was found on a sandy beach with no other rocks around

Very interesting, can i get rare earth from iron and aluminum foundries dross?

couldn't rare earth material be found in Bauxite residue? We have a lot of that here in Jamaica. If so why aren't we exploiting that?

I hope ur book can be read in malay/ bahasa melayu translation sir

Chris, would you be willing to come on my channel and discuss rare earths with me in an interview setting? I have a lot of questions and would love to run some questions your way! My audience would love it.

Is this guy an actual geologist?

Thanks a good overview. Essentially rare earths are not that rare but viable mines/sources are rare... outside of China which does not care about the degradation of the environment or health of its people and pays them peanuts. However the west is going to have to step up and start mining them properly - USA, Canada, Australia in particular.

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I was curious what lithium looks like? Maybe what the rare earth magnet materials are made of? I heard lithium is liquid but never seen a sample before. I also heard that if all the mines in north america, started collecting rare earths, it would be enough to replace China foothold

Are "Rare Earth Metals" the same as ""Rare Earth Elements"?

I believe I have these in my mines in Mariposa. Love to have you over sometime! Look up my name and contact me if you like! Daniel

I say this because i care, So in your age it is very important to keep your self healthy. And you should just do a full body check so you can detect cancer if you have. But always hopefully not.

Chris Hi' my name is Kris-tal and I have 2 STone's I would like Your opinion on ? ThanK You OHHHHH they are NOT Crystals.

China take 30% of REE from Myanmar

Why are U always gesturing with both hands, like a preacher.

Don't start your videos by insulting the intelligence of your viewers by saying they are probably ignorant.

Too many wasted words, you could say more with less.

Rare earths - funny name because things like He3 helium 3 are found as Moon dust - many many rare metals and minerals there

So Chris 😃 Awesome Information 💯% Maybe a question Sir 🤔 Is there any probability of potential for such elements to be extracted from the oceans if the opportunity of mineralisation exists 🤫 Technically the cost of available alternatives has benefits if it represents a significant progress for society 😃🤔

Where to find rare earth?