Rare earth elements are used to make rockets, chips, and other technical components. For example, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, gadolinium, yttrium, terbium, europium, all these come under rare earth elements.
Most of the rare earth elements are found in Asia, South America and the Eurasian continents. Let's have a look at which countries possess more earth elements.
10. Canada
Canada has 830K tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 0.7% of total earth reserves.
9. Tanzania
Tanzania is the only African country with more rare earth elements. It has around 890K tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 0.8% of total earth reserves.
8. Greenland
Greenland is a cold country with many glaciers in the northern hemisphere. It has 1.5 tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 1.3% of total earth reserves.
7. USA
The most powerful country, the USA, has around 1.5 tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 1.3% of total earth reserves. just slightly over Greenland.
6. Australia
Kangaroo land has over 4.1 million tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 3.5% of total earth reserves.
5. India
Asian subcontinent India has over 6.9 tons of rare earth elements which is equal to 6% of total earth reserves.
4. Russia
Russia has around 12 million tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 10.4% of total earth reserves.
3. Brazil
South American country brazil has around 21M tons of rare earth elements, which is equal to 18% of rare earth elements.
2. Vietnam
A lovely Asian country with numerous islands and beaches. Vietnam has around 22 million tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 19% of rare earth elements.
1. China
The Communist nation of China has a whopping 44 million tonnes of rare earth elements, which is equal to 38% of total earth reserves.