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I was watching Jeff Bartos on Bannon's War Room the other day. (He's running for the US Senate seat here in PA to replace Arlen Toomey). He briefly talked about mining rare earth minerals in PA. I know PA has oil, gas, and coal. But I didn't realize it had rare earth minerals. So I did a little research. Yes sir, they be here. Back when Trump was running the show, the Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences launched a Center for Critical Minerals. "[Penn State] and DOE researchers collaborated to successfully develop an economical way to extract rare earth elements from coal byproducts using an advanced ion exchange method."

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?