News to the contrary, the Chinese have a 97% market share, and while I am glad to hear that anything that suggests someone else breaking that up, until I see a crack in that market share, I think I am pretty safe saying that the Chinese own that market, though kudos to anyone and everyone that does successfully open a mine.
Note: I was referring to the US in that we do have a de facto ban via regulations.
The regulations concerned handling residual radiation in the ore.
One mine (our biggest) has been fixed so that's not a problem and it's reopening.
China's de facto monopoly ENDS with the reopening WHICH IS NOW!