That’s not the last word, that only means that we need to step up our production. We should anyway so we’re not in a bind if China cuts us off. It’s been easier to buy it from China, so we have and most of the companies producing it here have gone under or gone on to do something else. We can start producing it here again and give Australia’s economy a shot in the arm, I’m all good with that.
simply will expand exploration/discovery/production elsewhere in the World
sometimes just a slight increase in commodity price is enough to tip it past being profitable and to bring significant increases in production (particularly with modern mining recovery methods)
This can be corrected by gutting the power of the EPA and BLM.
We have rare earths. We can be self sufficient. We’re not allowed to be by these agencies that write their own rules for their own purposes.