{"id":149767,"date":"2026-04-16T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149767"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:00:10","slug":"the-next-frontier-china-maps-seabed-resources-as-japan-races-to-tap-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149767","title":{"rendered":"The next frontier: China maps seabed resources as Japan races to tap rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has issued its first map pinpointing seabed chemical elements in the country\u2019s eastern waters as Japan also races to tap undersea rare earth resources and deep-sea minerals.<br \/>\nThe Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources published the results of marine geological surveys over the past two decades for the seas, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe result was an atlas charting the location, concentration and distribution patterns of dozens of elements in seabed sediments, including&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3350168\/next-frontier-china-maps-seabed-resources-japan-races-tap-rare-earths?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 issued its first map pinpointing seabed chemical elements in the country\u2019s eastern waters as Japan also races to tap undersea rare earth&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\/149767"}],"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=149767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}