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U.S. House may vote on Rare Earths Act this week
Mineweb ^ | 27 Sep 2010 | Dorothy Kosich

Posted on 10/02/2010 6:46:57 AM PDT by epithermal

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To: UCANSEE2
The largest rare earth minerals mine in the U.S. is Molycorp's Mountain Pass mine in California (which is currently shut, I think).
21 posted on 10/02/2010 8:25:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: epithermal

“The House Committee on Science and Technology Thursday approved the Rare Earth and Critical Materials Revitalization Act of 2010, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a rare earth materials program ‘that will restore a long-term, secure and sustainable supply of rare earth materials to meet the needs of the United States.’ “

What morons in the Congress! They are completely reactive, instead of having foresight and being proactive. Anyone with one quarter of a working brain could see China’s behavior coming from miles away. We let our rare earths mines and processing lapse because of environmentalists and processing costs, and outsourced the whole industry to the Chinese Communists. Congress lets the Greens run roughshod over the American people and our national interests, time after time after time, all for the sake of their stupid campaign coffers.

NOW, can we PLEASE do the same for energy independence and oil? OR, do we have to wait for yet another energy crisis to show up on our door step? MORONS.


22 posted on 10/02/2010 8:26:50 AM PDT by bkopto ("I like being President. And it turns out I'm pretty good at it." Barack Obama, February 2009)
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To: LS

Because he just “wants to celebrate another day of living”!


23 posted on 10/02/2010 8:35:22 AM PDT by Yorktownpatriot
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To: 1rudeboy

Molycorp (MCP) was up 4.5% yesterday, and has doubled in price in the last three months. I wonder how many members of Congress own shares?


24 posted on 10/02/2010 8:41:47 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Melchior
...the NIMBY group have aleady won that battle, just as they have won the battle to halt the mining of rare earths.

Is it time to start ignoring (or taking out) NIMBYs yet?

25 posted on 10/02/2010 8:49:32 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty too! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: UCANSEE2

I have to admit I don’t know a lot about the rare earth metals but remember reading that China held the market.


26 posted on 10/02/2010 9:15:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: epithermal
...authorizes the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a rare earth materials program "that will restore a long-term, secure and sustainable supply of rare earth materials to meet the needs of the United States."

Good idea. So we can stockpile RE's in the U.S. and then be able to ship the stuff to China to use in the manufacture of "stuff" for us to buy back from them.

Huzzahs all around.

27 posted on 10/02/2010 10:10:09 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: 1rudeboy

IIRC (which is getting more unlikely ), The reason it was shut was that Importing from China was cheaper.

There may have been some political skullduggery (there always is), but I think this is one mine we could re-open.

The others, in the Escalante and Staircase are, now, untouchable.


28 posted on 10/02/2010 6:40:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well, you are incorrect. And I don’t think we ever mined rare earths in Escalante and Staircase.


29 posted on 10/02/2010 6:42:16 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Alter Kaker
ALBANIA!

Why Albania?

Why not Albania?


30 posted on 10/02/2010 6:44:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Sacajaweau

China is smart, they ban export of raw minerals so they can have a near monopoly on products using rare earth minerals. So you have to buy wind turbines, car batteries and the likes from China.


31 posted on 10/02/2010 9:54:03 PM PDT by mainsail that ('Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes')
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To: Psycho_Bunny
"...legislation in the future, geared toward restoring industries..."

LOL, that's like more flogging to restore morale.  

Nobody will ever make any money by voting for new laws that promise to raise dead business from their graves.  All we can do is start businesses, new business, once we're sure that congress is no longer 'helping' us.  

32 posted on 10/03/2010 4:12:35 AM PDT by expat_panama
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I said "restore", not "create".

I should have described that I meant restoration through repeal of laws and environmental policies - not through the creation of new laws. But I was posting via an iPhone and assumed FReepers would be in tune with my statement.

33 posted on 10/03/2010 8:26:55 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
That's what Reagan campaigned on, the promise not for new laws or programs to solve things, but the promise to repeal bad laws and end bad programs that are causing the problems in the first place.

Hmmm, this party of 'no' has a lot to be said for it...

34 posted on 10/03/2010 12:30:47 PM PDT by expat_panama
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