Which is a completely different thing than a rare earth metal. (Which incidentally are not rare or precious.)
To be fair, the group is badly named, but rare earth metals has a very precise meaning -- if something is not one of the lanthanides, Scandium, or Yttrium, it's not REE.
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Technically, its a (rare) precious metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal
Which is a completely different thing than a rare earth metal. (Which incidentally are not rare or precious.)
To be fair, the group is badly named, but rare earth metals has a very precise meaning -- if something is not one of the lanthanides, Scandium, or Yttrium, it's not REE.