Good news for the other REE mine in the US that isn’t in CA:
https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/elk-creek-niobium-project-nebraska/
This mine previously operated as Molycorp, went bankrupt in 2015. Lots of enviro-reg and market problems. A lot of circumstances are going to have to change before it becomes viable again.
I thought the US was importing a lot of rare earth materials from China.
We have production here, so we don’t need to import them. This is supposed to be good.
“The problem is that processing the ores into the minerals used in industry creates significant pollution, such that the ores from this US mine are sent to China to process. “
Why not send them to another country or another state in the US to process?
I’m kind of mixed on this...since most of these rare earths go into electric cars, something that I can live without.
If we were to relax some EPA restrictions in the name of National Security AND
Free up a lot of Federal Lands for prospecting AND
Encourage N Sask, Man & Alb Canada to to the same....
We would likely be awash in rare-earth minerals
The Anwar oil fields that DJT just opened up in Alaska are loaded with rare earth minerals! Coincidence? Don’t think so!
WOW ! Mountain Pass in the news ! I lived there as a child in the ‘60s and attended the 2 room school house. And met Elvis Presley at our little post office/grocery store. He was riding a motorcycle with another rider on their way to Las Vegas. He stopped at the little store for soda and snack. My Mom talked with him while I just gwacked. He was very nice. The most favorite place I ever lived.
Or other states might seize the opportunity. Perhaps we can even find a way to process it and reduce the pollution effect in the process. If anybody can we can.
Put all the bums “homeless” to work in or on the mines. Win win problem solved.
Pretty sure Mountain Pass mining operation is Chinese owned and does ship the raw product to China to be processed.
Here is a REE mine that is attempting to start up.
Interesting find - headline...
“Japan just found a ‘semi-infinite’ deposit of rare-earth minerals — and it could be a ‘game-changer’ in competition with China
Jeremy Berke Apr. 13, 2018, 12:26 PM”
Story highlights...
“Japan started seeking its own rare-earth mineral deposits after China withheld shipments of the substances amid a dispute over islands that both countries claim as their own, Reuters reported in 2014. ...
A new finding that could change the global economy...
The newly discovered deposit is enough to “supply these metals on a semi-infinite basis to the world,” the study’s authors wrote in the study. ...
The cache lies off of Minamitori Island, about 1,150 miles southeast of Tokyo. It’s within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, so the island nation has the sole rights to the resources there. ...”
“Business Insider” article link...
< https://www.businessinsider.com/rare-earth-minerals-found-in-japan-2018-4 >
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