Posted on 10/03/2020 6:40:30 AM PDT by cba123
(ATF) China has responded angrily to a US executive order to look into the country's dependence on rare earths from China. Reuters reported the order announced Wednesday could lead to tariffs, quotas or other possible import restrictions, according to the executive order released on Wednesday.
In China the news was met with irritation. Tencent news, for instance, said the US had entered a state of national emergency.
China does lead exports and has the top position in production of the group of elements that are is a vital material for the manufacture of technology products from mobile phones to military hardware.
In the tit-for-tat trade war, China is holding back exports or rare earths and the US, EU, Australia and others are re-opening old mines and exploring for new deposits. Rare earths are actually plentiful but difficult to get to Chinas are cheaper because they are more accessible.
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Unfortunately still too many mainland Chinese profs, students, grad students & PostDocs involved !
And which mine, (mines) would that be??
And mostly occur as oxides, and are referred to as REOs...rare earth oxides.
What deposit is the Nevada orebody??
Trump is making America independent again.
Environmentalists working for the Chinese, perhaps?
The Uniparty wants to get back to the usual business of selling out America.
Our President will NOT allow our country to become a Chinese colony!
Yes, the name you are both looking for is Richard Blum.
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I wasn’t
And which mine, (mines) would that be??
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I really do not remember it was a long time ago
I think we may find that the Chinese were paying off environmental groups to shut down US competition. China has an advantage in that they don't have to pay any attention to any environmental effects of their mining.
...and half the American population operates on the moron level.
You were, you just dont know it yet.
About 30 years ago, I was living Houston and one of the things I had going on was as a specialist on a state of the art technology from my company that a very well known prof at a western US university was trialing in his research program. The profs work was funded by a prominent process equipment manufacturer that wanted to incorporate our technology into their overall system package. I was spending about 2-weeks a month in town split between the university and a second project at a copper mine and mill an hour drive away.
I was teamed up with a visiting Chinese prof that was on a fellowship to the project. The guy was really broken down, obvious hed had a hard life and was at an age that Im sure he had been caught up on the brutal side of the earlier Cultural Revolution chaos. So, we worked together several months then on my last visit he was gone and 2 well groomed Chinese with perfect English were in his place. I asked where the original Chinese was at. The reply was basically whos that, never heard of him. Very weird.
I know.
I live in a university town, work on occasion with Profs at the local university. So I see it all the time.
China, Indonesia, and Europe during the Kosovo War featuring the Albanian witch Albright.
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I’m not sure I could take another revelation.
Im not sure I could take another revelation.
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History is a cruel master. And it doesn’t help that it is hardly taught at all, and what there is, is so distorted that it could well be a parallel universe they are talking about.
I do not know of any economic REO mines in Nevada or occurrences of any size...some REOs have been mined on a very small scale from pegmatite dikes in Elko county.
These occurrences are small with little potential for commercial development.
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