{"id":888550,"date":"2026-01-28T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/what-are-rare-earth-elements-and-why-is-everyone-looking-for-them-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:21:13","slug":"what-are-rare-earth-elements-and-why-is-everyone-looking-for-them-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/what-are-rare-earth-elements-and-why-is-everyone-looking-for-them-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"What are rare-earth elements and why is everyone looking for them? | Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even when they\u2019re not very scarce in the earth\u2019s crust, they tend to be spread out in low concentrations and mixed together in the same minerals, so they\u2019re difficult and expensive to separate. However, countries worldwide are interested in acquiring them because they\u2019re crucial for many green technologies and electronics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/rare-earth-elements-magnets-green-tech-mining-midstream-processing-china-dominance\/article70438926.ece\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Georgianna Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when they\u2019re not very scarce in the earth\u2019s crust, they tend to be spread out in low concentrations and mixed together in the same minerals, so they\u2019re difficult and expensive to separate. However, countries worldwide are interested in acquiring them because they\u2019re crucial for many green technologies and electronics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43448,136757,192],"tags":[21848,147784],"class_list":{"0":"post-888550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-elements","8":"category-rare-earth","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-elements","11":"tag-rare-earth"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}