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are there no rare earths in Antarctica?

@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.

princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1989/

@dpp I’m so glad you mentioned that because it crossed my mind too 😂 I lived in Rhode island in the 2000s and remember the Lovecraft plaque on Prospect St.

@dpp @eARCwelder how do we know you do not actually live in Providence Plantations?