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Malaysia plans to ban exports of rare earth minerals (asia.nikkei.com)
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[–] halfempty@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Misleading headline. They still want to export it, but they want to process the minerals locally, and then export the processed rare earth material.

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're rocks, hank!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ Marie, they're not rocks. They're minerals!

[–] jherazob@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Welp, they're gonna send Zoolander at them again...