what’s the distribution of rare earth minerals used in batteries and how available are these?

Question

Mainly in comparison to the distribution of oil which I understand is a lot more established. Will there come a point whereby batteries can’t be economically produced?

Do we have any idea where these minerals are likely to be?

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Answer 1

My dad (geophysicist, works in the geological imaging industry) explained it to me like like this. there are minerals everywhere, were just digging at the rare places where the concentration is dumbly higher than everywhere else, someday, we will have to start digging in places where it’s a little bit less dumbly high of a concentration.