Topic: Mining

The Rare Earth Metals the U.S. Wants That China's Got

Reuters

Whether you realize it or not, your smartphone-toting, hybrid car-driving, neon light-gazing would be impossible without the cooperation from China, our fickle friends on the other side of the planet.

By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 23, 2012

Who Needs Another Mountaintop When We Can Have a Giant Telescope?

Chilean technicians exploded the top off of Las Campanas Peak in the Atacama Desert to begin the construction of a telescope ten times as powerful as the Hubble on Friday morning.

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

China Rescues 19 Miners Trapped for a Week

Three still missing underground after two separate rescue attempts

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