In Fujian and Hainan, coastal placer sands hold easily extractable thorium-bearing monazite. The Bayan Obo mega-deposit - already the world's largest rare earth mine - contains a huge amount of ...

Research has been published over the past few decades on the possible use of thorium in various nuclear power reactor types. Therefore, it is worthwhile to analyse the supply situation for additional ...

According to a report, detailing the survey, published in Chinese journal Geological Review -- just five years of mining waste from a single iron ore site in Inner Mongolia holds enough thorium to ...