A recently declassified geological survey suggests that China may have far more thorium than previously estimated, placing ...

Australia, Brazil and the U.S. also boast large reserves of thorium, each possessing more than 500,000 tons. The Steenkampskraal rare-earth mine in South Africa, one of the world's highest-grade ...

Thorium, commonly found in igneous rocks and heavy mineral sands, is named after Thor, the god of thunder in Norse mythology. It is three times more abundant in nature than uranium, but historically ...

China has found a treasure that will change its fortunes. Chinese geologists have discovered huge thorium reserves in the country. This reserve is so huge that it can end China's electricity problems ...

The report points to the enormous potential of thorium in China’s mining waste. Just five years’ worth of mining waste from an iron ore site in Inner Mongolia contains enough thorium to supply ...

Well, in the sense that we're interested here. They have all the licences to extract thorium from a mineral and then store that extracted thorium out on the Back 40. That's the thing that really ...

China has announced the discovery of vast thorium reserves, a radioactive metal being hailed as a potential " limitless " ...

Thorium is a relatively abundant, slightly radioactive element which is commonly produced as a byproduct of mining rare-earth metals. On its own, thorium isn't fissile, which means it doesn't ...