Another untold reason for banning mining besides increasing our dependence on China is that American miners and manufacturing workers would need to be paid a decent wage with benefits etc. This would therefore increase the manufacturing costs of green energy things making them less economically practical. For cheaper to use Chinese or African slave labor ( many times children ) to keep costs the down. I bet the hypocritical enviromental activists have a blind eye to this.
No, not really. That’s a tactic of the unions, who are themselves bought and paid for by Red China and by the ideology thereof more so.
Cobalt is one of those resources that if we don’t mine it ourselves, is obtained from African mines with child labor.