In flat screens there are 4 types of rare earth minerals. I don't know of anyone who is actually refining rare earth minerals, but I imagine someone is thinking about it, specially since China has admitted to how far their stocks of rare earth minerals has been depleted. I plan to refine them in the future, but I might be 5 years away from actually attempting it.
I am not sure where the rare earth minerals reside in flat screens, but I do know two people who own scrap yards, who are accumulating this type of material, hedging that in the future it will be worth their time to have them refined.
If you google rare earth minerals, you will quickly see the point I'm trying to make in this post. There is a ton of information, and news articles. Mines here in the US are just starting to gear up again to fill in the gaps China is leaving behind in it's wake. These mining companies are also a good investment, since the US has some of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals in the world, and the demand for them is only increasing. Literally, modern electronics, your touch screen phones to your plasma TVs, would not exist without them.
For those of you who have the room to store against the future, now would be a good time to purchase this type of material cheaply, you might have to sit on it for 5 years or more, but eventually it will have been well worth your while.
Scott
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