China stainless steel mogul fights to avoid a second collapse
A debt crisis is threatening the future of one of the world’s top stainless steel producers, Jiangsu Delong Nickel Industry.
They seem to be everywhere these days: smartphones, wind turbines, hybrid cars, night-vision goggles and even weapons. Rare earth elements have become such a hot commodity that entrepreneurs and investors are planning to start mining asteroids and the moon for them.
CNET has produced the following infographic, which shows how ubiquitous these elements are:
