Post ApNvioxtZXZl3zpKls by dpp@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ApLUkG58tSogHaovXE by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-12-23T18:33:21Z
       
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       are there no rare earths in Antarctica?
       
 (DIR) Post #ApLYFsczvibkfeQTSq by Phil@freeatlantis.com
       2024-12-23T19:12:41Z
       
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       @interfluidity well I'm certainly not going there to find out, but it seems odds are good that there would be.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApLfFSgh4iNVtgu0Nk by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
       2024-12-23T20:30:59Z
       
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       @interfluidity Metals under a kilometer of ice would be pretty cool to mine.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApLfbzi4ymYkgXIKzg by eARCwelder@mastodon.social
       2024-12-23T20:35:02Z
       
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       @interfluidity Seems like there are: > In Antarctica, airborne radiometric surveys have found radioactivity anomalies that have been shown, on field inspection, to be related to thorium- and uranium-bearing minerals as well as to rare-earth and tin-bearing minerals within sandstone of the basal (Devonian) parts of the Beacon Supergroup in the Darwin Glacier area of the Transantarctic Mountains.https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1989/8926/892606.PDF
       
 (DIR) Post #ApNMuWPIdpC6UcYGFE by dpp@mastodon.social
       2024-12-24T00:48:48Z
       
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       @eARCwelder @interfluidity see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_MadnessSorry… I live in Rhode Island
       
 (DIR) Post #ApNMuXPKvAolb1ZnwO by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-12-24T16:14:58Z
       
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       @dpp @eARCwelder how do we know you do not actually live in Providence Plantations?
       
 (DIR) Post #ApNvioxtZXZl3zpKls by dpp@mastodon.social
       2024-12-24T22:45:01Z
       
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       @interfluidity @eARCwelder hard to prove a negative…