La Cina si accaparra il 97 per cento dei metalli rari... servono per nuove tecnologie, auto “verdi”, eccetera

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

 &…