[Carry_Okie]

Raw Materials and Mining: iPhones contain about 75 elements, including rare earths (e.g., neodymium, dysprosium), aluminum, gold, and silicon. The U.S. lacks domestic sources for many of these.

Equine feces. We have all of those minerals, but many if not most are sequestered by environmental set-asides, distorting both strategic availability and price. Consider Chocolate Mountain.

[Jim from C-Town]

China doesn’t produce all these raw materials either. They just tried to corner the market with cheap slave labor.

[Does so]

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