{"id":3700,"date":"2011-07-05T13:44:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:00","slug":"used-cell-phones-from-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/used-cell-phones-from-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Used Cell Phones from the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ocean.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1399\" title=\"ocean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ocean.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1399 lazyload\" title=\"ocean\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ocean.gif\"><\/a>The elements needed to make used cell phones can be found in abundance on the ocean floor, according to Japanese scientists.&nbsp; A report in the \u201cNature Geoscience\u201d journal says that key materials from modern electronic items such as cell phones, flat screen televisions and laptop computers can be found on the sea bed.<br>\nYasuhiro Kato and other researchers from Japan\u2019s University of Tokyo surveyed 78 locations on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and found them rich in concentrations of the metal yttrium ad other rare earth elements.&nbsp; \u201cWe estimate that an area of just one square kilometer, surrounding one of the sampling sites, could provide one fifth of the current annual world consumption of these elements,\u201d the scientists claim.&nbsp; Kato and his fellows also suggest that it also might not even be that hard to extract the elements from the ocean floor and put them to use.&nbsp; \u201cWe show that rare earth elements and yttrium are readily recovered from the mud by simple acid leeching, and suggest that deep sea mud constitutes a highly promising huge resource for these elements.\u201d<br>\nGiven that no less than 97 per cent of the current market for rare earth elements come from China, the news could be very interesting indeed, though Nicola Jones, a journalist on Nature.com, suggests that mining the sea may not be as easy as Kato and his fellows might wish to think.&nbsp; \u201cPeople talk about mining on the asteroids or the moon,\u201d she notes.&nbsp; \u201cThis isn\u2019t that hard, but it\u2019s similar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elements needed to make used cell phones can be found in abundance on the ocean floor, according to Japanese 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