Thor Medical, which is working in a partnership with South Africa’s Steenkampskraal monazite mine (SMM), has made progress in ...

China, the biggest holder of rare earths, is weaponising them by restricting the supply. Though it has hit the EV industry in ...

Higher concentrations of thorium are typically found in minerals such as thorite, thorianite, monazite, allanite, and zircon, according to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The most common source of thorium is the rare earth phosphate mineral, monazite. World monazite resources are estimated to be about 12 million tons, two-thirds of which are in India.

Image via Wikipedia Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than that within the earth ...

Fully exploited, the Bayan Obo mining complex could yield 1 million tonnes of thorium - enough to fuel China for 60,000 years, according to some scientists' estimates.

Just five years’ worth of mining waste from an iron ore site in Inner Mongolia contains enough thorium to supply U.S. household energy demands for over 1,000 years.

The Steenkampskraal rare-earth mine in South Africa, one of the world's highest-grade deposits of rare-earth minerals, including thorium, on July 29, 2019.

If that wasn't enough, the monazite mineral from which thorium is commonly sourced has higher concentrations of material than the equivalent uranium ore. Way Down In the Mines ...

At one time it was a hot bed for mining various minerals, but now geologists are saying there is a higher reserve of thorium in the region than anywhere in the world.