The official press release about Turkey’s “discovery” is scant on details. But Goodenough suggests that it is likely to be the well-known Kizilçaören deposit, located near the city of Eskişehir in northwestern Turkey. She and colleagues visited this deposit five years ago and have discussed its potential for rare earth extraction in academic papers. The mineral bastnäsite, which contains rare earth elements, has been identified at Kizilçaören in the past. “This deposit we have written about, it is similar to some of the big producing deposits in China,” says Goodenough. “It does have
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