Watch Treasure Hunters: Scientists Searching for Alternatives to Rare Earths

Treasure Hunters: Scientists Searching for Alternatives to Rare Earths is a science documentary film that was released in 2013. The film documents efforts to uncover deposits of rare earth elements. The elements are vital to the manufacture of some of the newest forms of batteries and computers, and are now a vital part of the modern economic. The film documents the advances the caused rare earth elements to become a vital resource, and the problems associated with mining them from a few specific locations. It then follows some of the emerging deposits of rare earth elements, and the plans to exploit them.

Treasure Hunters: Scientists Searching for Alternatives to Rare Earths is a 2013 documentary with a runtime of 52 minutes.