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- Title: Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
- Author(s) Christine Schranz
- Publisher: transcript publishing (November 27, 2021); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
- License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
- Paperback: 294 pages
- eBook: PDF and PDF Files
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3837660419
- ISBN-13: 978-3837660418
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Rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths, but they are still widely believed to be both. Although the approach focuses on the human, or cultural, geography of rare earths mining, it could be both on Earth and on the moon.
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