If you want a sure bet in ventures growing to sizable value and excellent dividends look for REEs (rare earth elements).
What are REEs? The rare earth elements (or "rare earths") are also known as the lanthanide series of elements and include the 15 elements in the lanthanide series of the Periodic Table of the Elements, plus yttrium and scandium. The better-known elements are cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, gadolinium, europium, and samarium.
How are they used? They are used in catalytic converters, hybrid car batteries, magnets for hybrid braking systems, Ceil phones, aerospace industries, LCD screens etc etc
The colours you see on the display in your LCD are from phosphors that contain europium, yttrium, and terbium; the glass contains cerium and yttrium; the faceplates were polished with cerium and lanthanum; the electronics contain neodymium; and the microchips were polished with cerium.
Typically, once the rare earth ore is mined and concentrated, it is further processed (either by the mining company or a third party) into a mixed rare earth powder (e.g., as oxides or chlorides). This mixed rare earth product may be sold as is, or processed further by separating the individual REEs into a purer product (e.g., cerium oxide or neodymium oxide).
The value of rare earth powders depends on the purity of the rare earth powder, the lot size, and how it was refined.
Here are two examples of price variance:
Oxide powder varies in price from US$3.00 per kg, for cerium oxide in a one tonne lot size, to US$15,000 per kg, for scandium oxide in 100-g quantities.
Individual powders further refined into metal, depending on purity and lot size, may range in price from US$15.00 per kg, for lanthanum metal, to US$30,000 per kg, for scandium metal.
To put this into perspective, gold is currently worth about US$20,000 per kg. However, a high-grade gold deposit might have a gross value of only US$120 per tonne, while a high-grade rare earth deposit could easily have a gross value of US$1,000 per tonne or more.
So there you have it. No other mineral market is growing as fast. The current lust for REEs is insatiable. China has 97% of present supplies creating a rush to secure REEs from other sources like.....CANADA there is a very viable deposit here in Canada being developed. If you've ever wanted "in" on something that is growing beyong belief....this is it.