A rare earth element (REE) or rare earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium.are earth elements became known to the world with the discovery of the black mineral Ytterbite (renamed to Gadolinite in 1800) by Lieutenant Carl Axel Arrhenius in 1787, at a quarry in the village of Ytterby, Sweden.
Boaz is a city in Etowah and Marshall Counties in the State of Alabama. It is part of the ' Gadsden, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area '. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 9,551.
The Pilgrim's Pride plant slaughters about 500,000 birds daily when in operation in Boaz, according to Scofield, and three other processing plants run by different companies operate in the area. The move comes less than three months after Pilgrim's said it was spending $25 million to expand in south Alabama.