[maddog55]

EPA will shut that mining down in a week or two.

[jimsin]

the chicoms aint gonna like this

zut alors!

looks like it’s back to chop stix exportation..

[Tainan]

I seem to remember an article a few months back about Japan discovering a mother lode of rare earth minerals in an area of their territorial sea beds. And the kicker was that the technology to easily recover these rare earth deposits was already in use.

Anyone else remember this?

[agere_contra]

Rare earths aren't rare.

America has plenty of rare earth deposits. It has only one semi-working mine - I seem to remember this is due to onerous regulation.

We can't blame China for America's apparent inability to mine its own minerals.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Isn’t that headline a mixed metaphor? Or just a pleonasm?

[Joined2Justify]

There must be one heck of a tailing pile out at that huge old gold mine called Homestead...? Think it’s Homestead, in maybe South Dakota. Try a google earth flyover, that is a major big hole! As I understand there are layers and layers of tunnels too. Would take a long long time to sift through all of that.

[Moltke]

The problem isn’t finding the stuff or getting it out of the ground, it’s refining it. The Chinese don’t care about pollution, that’s why they have the market cornered. (At least that’s my understanding of matters.)

[Jet Jaguar]

Goldbug ping.

[RWB Patriot]

We’re sitting on a lot of gold mines. Problem is big brother won’t let us touch them.