{"id":241609,"date":"2026-07-27T01:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/japan-identifies-large-share-of-rare-earths-in-deep-sea-mud-off-remote-island"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:02:27","slug":"japan-identifies-large-share-of-rare-earths-in-deep-sea-mud-off-remote-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/japan-identifies-large-share-of-rare-earths-in-deep-sea-mud-off-remote-island","title":{"rendered":"Japan identifies large share of rare earths in deep-sea mud off remote island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-identifies-large-share-of-rare-earths-in-deep-sea-mud-off-remote-island.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An analysis of rare earth-rich mud retrieved from \u2060the deep seabed off a remote Pacific Island earlier this year found medium and heavy rare earth elements accounted for about 54% of the total rare earth content, Japan\u2019s government said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But it did not disclose the size of the content or \u200cthe deposits, saying \u200cthe data was insufficient due to the limited duration and geographic scope of sampling.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese scientific drilling vessel, Chikyu, completed a monthlong mission in February near Minamitorishima island, about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, marking the world\u2019s first successful attempt to \u2060continuously lift rare-earth-bearing seabed mud from depths of around 6 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of rare earth-rich mud retrieved from \u2060the deep seabed off a remote Pacific Island earlier this year found medium and heavy rare earth elements accounted for about 54% of the total rare earth content, Japan\u2019s government said on Friday. But it did not disclose the size of the content or \u200cthe deposits, saying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}