{"id":148317,"date":"2026-03-21T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148317"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:00:08","slug":"china-reports-stunning-critical-minerals-finds-as-hi-tech-race-with-us-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148317","title":{"rendered":"China reports \u2018stunning\u2019 critical minerals finds as hi-tech race with US heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has announced major discoveries of various critical minerals, including rare earths and fluorite, bolstering its reserves of the resources essential for the hi-tech, new energy and defence industries.<br \/>\nAt the Maoniuping mine in Sichuan province\u2019s Mianning county, authorities announced the discovery of 9.7 million tonnes of rare earth oxides, bringing the site\u2019s total proven reserves to 10.4 million tonnes, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.<br \/>\nSurveys also revealed 27.1 million&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3347436\/china-reports-stunning-critical-minerals-finds-hi-tech-race-us-heats?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has announced major discoveries of various critical minerals, including rare earths and fluorite, bolstering its reserves of the resources essential for the hi-tech,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}