That’s just a reporter who hasn’t done their research. Rare earth are used as additives to things like iron and other metals. I’ll bet the reporter saw “9,200

That’s just a reporter who hasn’t done their research. Rare earth are used as additives to things like iron and other metals. I’ll bet the reporter saw “9,200 pounds of rare earth alloys” and decided “alloys” is too confusing and dropped it.