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Thorium is abundant in Sri Lanka’s mineral sands. Mined with dredgers at shallow depths 10-100m off the western coast.
by inshard 11mo ago
Thorium is abundant in Sri Lanka’s mineral sands. Mined with dredgers at shallow depths 10-100m off the western coast.
- hunterpayne 11mo agoThorium is abundant anywhere where Rare Earths are mined. You can get it almost anywhere. You don't even mine it, you process it out of tailing piles from other mining operations.
- ta20240528 11mo agoThorium is also a waste product of monazite rare-earth mining.