huge rare earth deposits found in pacific ocean

[the last donut of the night]

(Reuters) - Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-rareearth-japan-idUSTRE76300320110704

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Since the proportion of the Earth's surface is something like ~73% covered in water, that means an awful lot of the Earth's mineral wealth is located underwater.

We should be colonising the oceans as well as space.