dat’s funny!
china spending all that money to corner the rare earths market.
now, the california mine has re-opened; then a report found rare earths common to much of the ocean, within meters of the surface; and now nebraska.
Tiny town. I came from neighboring Beatrice, NE, where they have been giving away land if you put a house and live on it. This could bring in some people. Good for them.
Where do I sign up? I’ll be more than happy to help extract those rare-earth elements from the earth.
Wonder if they found any Thorium.
Good news all around. At least until Obama reads it and shuts them down because we can’t allow the USA to exceptional, now can we?
Who wants to wager that the Gov’t and Enviro Weenies will find an endangered worm or gnat that they have to protect against the BIG evil Mining corporations?
Let’s hope they are able to extract the minerals without sabotage.
I think China kinda messed up. The rare-earth minerals are really not that rare. What you need is a concentration of the minerals AND a willingness to extract them. Pollution is a major byproduct of extracting the minerals and China has for a long time been willing to ignore the consequences. Now there will be economic incentive to find and extract these minerals from around the world.
bttt - for potential good news if the hands on the levers of power don’t hamstring us!
Geologist Matt Joeckel displays a core sample of carbonatite rock containing niobium and rare-earth elements, which was taken from a deposit near Elk Creek, Neb., in early February.How long before Zero signs an executive order turning the deposits into a national park?
Oh, the “environmentalists” will find some bug or lizard or caterpillar or weed that they get to be declared “endangered” and China wins again.