[Sacajaweau]

The USA has these minerals. But like all our “God Given” assets, we pass...and deal with some blackmailer overseas.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[DesertRhino]

I have a list that helps me identify domestic terrorists,,

1)visiting camping stores and “instructing” the owners to turn over customer lists
2)Ignoring muslims and focusing on regular Americans doing normal things,
3)universal monitoring and surveillance of citizens,
4)Impeding and supressing free speech,,
5)considering ALL food production as a “homeland security” issue,,
6)Homeland security conducting searches at a high school prom,
7)deliberately destroying our economy,,
etc etc etc..

We are becoming a police state.

[Sonny M]

FWIW, "rare earth minerals" are a misnomer, they are not rare.

Thanks to our "progressive" regulatory system, we did everything but outright ban mining for them (though the "progressive" regulations wound up becoming in fact, a de facto ban).

It would take massive deregulation and probably even loans and tax breaks, just to kick start the industry all over again.

[mountainlion]

The ocean bottom mud has billions of tons of this stuff. Kansas has a new discovery of “Rare Earth Metals” and of course there is California Nevada supplies that need new process. Yes, we have nothing.

[OB1kNOb]

Read somewhere where I think we found a large REE deposit in Nebraska? No idea how long it would take to come into production.....2, 5, more years?

[PiperShade]

Lots of these in the good ol’ USA ! (Been some talk of a big find in a remote (very) small town in Nebraska of late.) Its just our watermelons ahve more political clout than those few extant in China. >PS