Despite their name, rare earth elements are â with the exception of the radioactive promethium â relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper.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.
In late 1984, he formed the consulting firm Bob Beckel & Associates, or BBA, a lobbying firm which was succeeded in 1985 by BeckelâCowan. In 2002, Beckel managed the campaign of Alan Blinken, the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Idaho, until he resigned after being targeted for extortion by a prostitute.
Jeffrey Charles Jeff Beck, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, suddenly left this world to be in Heaven with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, June 27, 2015 in Baton Rouge. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Thursday July 2, at Aderhold Funeral Home in West, with Derek Dake officiating.