Posted on 05/28/2021 6:34:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Relying on foreign allies for critical minerals supply instead of mining domestically would be an “irresponsible” and “dangerous” policy for the Biden administration to pursue, a top lithium executive says.
Calaway was responding to a report that said the Biden administration, in a move to appease environmentalists, would focus on building a domestic industry to process critical minerals rather than exploring opportunities to mine in the U.S.
Those technologies are more mineral-intensive. The International Energy Agency recently projected the world’s appetite for critical minerals could grow by as much as six times in the next two decades. A typical electric car requires six times as many minerals as a gas-powered car, the IEA said.
The U.S., however, has little domestic supply of critical minerals. Much of the world’s production and processing is dominated by China.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
At this point, it appears the Interior Department could be stalling. Calaway said Ioneer sent its project plans to the agency just as the new administration was taking office, but it’s been several months with no movement. He said he thinks the White House should push the Interior Department to issue the notice.
At this point, it appears the Interior Department could be stalling.
Ioneer’s project has not been without hurdles. The company has faced opposition from environmental activists who say the company’s project would destroy the habitat of a rare wildflower, known as Tiehm's buckwheat, that is only known to grow in Rhyolite Ridge.
In April, environmental activists scored a legal victory when a federal judge ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to protect the wildflower under the Endangered Species Act.
Meh. We can just get it from China.
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>>Biden’s plan to stop mining critical minerals ‘irresponsible’<<
Biden’s plan to destroy
America ‘irresponsible’
I’ve read that we’re all endangered species unless global warming is brought under control.
Perhaps that judge knows more than climate scientists.
Putin has a piece of our Uranium mine given to him by the Demons,
The people who oppose our mining and refining rare earths all while demanding we become more dependent on them are the people who do the grunt work for China.
These are also the same people who wanted us to believe Trump was a Russian stooge.
Well all those Gold mining TV shows are done then ... America closes its precious metal mines in move to save the planet for the ‘children’. (of wealthy Chinese)
China appears to make veiled threat about rare earth minerals crucial to US technology industry
PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 28 2019
Speculation that China could use its dominance in rare earth minerals as a weapon in the trade war intensified after a Chinese official warned that products made from the materials should not be used against China’s development.
The comment, reported by CCTV, was taken as a veiled threat aimed at the U.S. and its technology companies that are dependent on the materials. Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited rare earth mining and processing facilities, adding to speculation that China could make the minerals more expensive or unavailable if the trade war continues to expand.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/china-makes-veiled-threat-about-withholding-rare-earth-minerals.html
In another DOE-funded project, they partnered with Texas Mineral Resources Corp., Inventure Renewables Inc. and K-Technologies to investigate if the process would be feasible on an industrial scale. The overall goal is to find an economical way to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals, such as manganese and cobalt, from coal byproducts.
“Pennsylvania has the resources. Pennsylvania coals and coal-associated products have the highest concentrations of these rare earth elements and critical minerals in the U.S. Penn State is well positioned to play a vital role in helping industrial partners here in the state,” Pisupati said.
Penn State launches Center for Critical Minerals
Extracting REEs from Pennsylvania coal
Extracting rare-earth elements from coal could soon be economical in U.S.
Earth MRI Funds Critical Minerals Projects in Pennsylvania
Perry Talks Up Rare Earth Minerals at Pennsylvania Coal Mine
High Concentrations of Rare Earth Elements Found in American Coal Basins
Rare Earths Statistics and Information
Apparently "critical minerals" are here in the US, probably in greater abundance outside of PA and Xiden's approach is to allow China to be the world leader in yet another industry. How much did Hunter and the Big Guy get paid for this one?
For Biden to justify this due to environmental reasons is absurd. Who better than the United States to accomplish anything with minimal environmental impact. No other country has more will or ability to do so. So go ahead and farm out this endeavor to someone who has no concern about the environment. Perhaps we should insist on doing it ourselves in order to protect the environment. The logic of such a proposal is mind-boggling. Could there possibly be another agenda?
Has the project been shut down yet by Biden/CCP ?
“Could there possibly be another agenda?”
The downfall of America and rise of China?
China has been engaged in some major manipulations to be the dominate controller of critical metals. Biden is doing China’s bidding under cover of environmental concerns.
I haven't seen anything indicating that. I assume the funds for this have already been appropriated and can't be pulled back. Also in the vast humongous US Government spending machine, this is just a drop in an ocean. There are too many other things that have higher priority to Xiden.
Biden makes his decisions by determining what Trump would do...then doing the opposite.
Just thinking a little bit more about this. Note how the Department of Interior is blocking the project noted in this article. Here in the Eastern US, that are far fewer federal lands. In PA, most mining operations are on privately owned property. I have long been for private ownership of land, and if not privately owned, then state owned. Last in line should be the federal government and only for military purposes. I would go as far as scraping the National Park system and giving the parks to the states. National forests should become state forests. BLM (not the burn, loot and murder organization) land should be turned over to states. Basically, the Department of Interior should be put out of business. It would be a huge defeat to eco-whackos. They would have to go after 50 different states instead of one federal bureaucracy where they have been able to plant their own people over the years.
Exactly my point. Here in PA, the vast majority of federal land, which is small compared to out west, is in the northern tier as part of the Allegheny National Forest. For the life of me, I could never tell any difference between National Forest from State Forest, except when it comes to developing resources on that land, e.g., most recently fracking shale for oil and gas. Which by the way, there are some 22 Trillion (that's with a T) cubic feet of natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation and additional reserves below that in the Utica shale formation.
This nation is so rich in resources and so rich in innovation. When there is unencumbered access to those resources there will be a way developed to extract those resources for the benefit of Americans.
The illegal Biden regime acts in a very childish way; if Trump did it, they undo it, to the immense harm of our country. The illegal Biden regime has not instituted a SINGLE measure which is beneficial to America. But they have inflicted us with dozens of extremely destructive ones which are intended to destroy America on behalf of their foreign masters.
Biden sure is busy thinking up new ways to F up the country.
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