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Minerals glossary

Rare earth elements

Also called rare earths, REE, REEs, rare earth metals, lanthanides

The 15 lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium, 17 chemically similar metals. They are not especially rare in the crust but are seldom concentrated and hard to separate.

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