Rare Metals

The following metals are commonly defined as “rare”, whereby annual production is, on the whole, 25,000 metric tonnes or less. Only the most obscure of these rare metals, such as the rare earths holmium, ytterbium, and lutetium, can still be defined as minor metals: this is because even today they only have minor uses since they are (and will remain) too rare ever to be available in sufficient quantity for mass production.

Neodymium	Cadmium	Lithium	Yttrium	Bismuth	Praseodymium
Silver	Gold	Dysprosium	Selenium	Samarium	Zirconium
Gadolinium	Indium	Terbium	Europium	Palladium	Platinum
Germanium	Gallium	Rhenium	Rhodium	Hafnium	Tantalum
Erbium	Holmium	Lutetium	Scandium	Tellurium	Thorium
Thulium	Ytterbium

 

From this list of rare metals, the Technology Metals are typically defined as the following (x 32 in total)