China has cornered 97% of the world market for rare earth metals, according to Byron King (the Times Online puts the number at 95%, and the Financial Times puts the number at "over 90%").
What are rare earth metals? Most people define them as including the following 17 metals:
* Cerium
* Dysprosium
* Erbium
* Europium
* Gadolinium
* Holmium
* Lanthanum
* Lutetium
* Neodymium
* Praseodymium
* Promethium
* Samarium
* Scandium
* Terbium
* Thulium
* Ytterbium
* Yttrium
(Some people also include some or all of the Actinide Series elements as rare earths. The Actinides include:
* Actinium
* Americium
* Berkelium
* Californium
* Curium
* Einsteinium
* Fermium
* Lawrencium
* Mendelevium
* Neptunium
* Nobelium
* Plutonium
* Protactinium
* Thorium
* Uranium)
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