naa a22 4500 510771262 CHVBK 20180411083214.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11837-013-0732-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11837-013-0732-y Wang Shijie Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper, South Jordan, UT, USA aut Rare Earth Metals: Resourcefulness and Recovery [Elektronische Daten] [Shijie Wang] When we appreciate the digital revolution carried over from the twentieth century with mobile communication and the Internet, and when we enjoy our high-tech lifestyle filled with iDevices, hybrid cars, wind turbines, and solar cells in this new century, we should also appreciate that all of these advanced products depend on rare earth metals to function. Although there are only 136,000tons of annual worldwide demand, (Cho, Rare Earth Metals, Will We Have Enough?)1 rare earth metals are becoming such hot commodities on international markets, due to not only to their increasing uses, including in most critical military hardware, but also to Chinese growth, which accounts for 95% of global rare earth metal production. Hence, the 2013 technical calendar topic, planned by the TMS/Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee, is particularly relevant, with four articles (including this commentary) contributed to the JOM October Issue discussing rare earth metals' resourcefulness and recovery. TMS, 2013 JOM Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 65/10(2013-10-01), 1317-1320 1047-4838 65:10<1317 2013 65 11837 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0732-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 editorial jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0732-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wang Shijie Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper, South Jordan, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- JOM Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 65/10(2013-10-01), 1317-1320 1047-4838 65:10<1317 2013 65 11837 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer