Posted on 05/31/2019 2:29:21 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Rare earth elements are used every day. They are metals that are used in everything from cell phones to cars, televisions, military jet engines and medical devices.
However, the tit-for-tat trade Opens a New Window. war between the U.S. and China, Opens a New Window. may present a challenge to the industry which heavily relies on China. The retaliatory tariffs from China on $60 billion worth U.S. goods goes into effect this weekend.
Blue Line Corp., a chemical company based in Texas, is the first and only company outside of China that can process small batches of rare earth. They just partnered with Australian rare earths mining company Lynas to build a processing facility in the U.S.
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The last non-China processor in Malaysia closed in 2012 because they could not compete with China’s subsidized pricing...
SMH
God Bless Texas!
If the United States ever devolves into civil war and breaks up, and I hope it does NOT, then I would wish my home state of Alabama to become part of the Greater Texas Hegemony.
[ First rare earth processing facility outside of China to be built in Texas ]
Get ready
Here I come
Seems like a strange place to put it considering most of the Rare Earths are in CO, UT and NV.
Transportation cost would doom it
The last non-China processor in Malaysia closed in 2012 because they could not compete with China’s subsidized pricing...
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The Chinese employ standard mercantilist practices to drive competitors out of the business — low prices when a competitor tries to enter the market and high gouging prices when they have the market to themselves.
Tariff the hell out of the Chinese!
Will the Greater Texas Hegemony defend its borders, or will it be too Mexican and therefore too late? Serious question.
I just wanna celebrate!
Carolina to Texas, through Nebraska and back. Make Nashville the capitol.
Why we ever gave China the edge on these rare earth metals, I’ll never know. Just plain stupid.
That is all true. I remember when they closed what a big mistake it was. The predictions came true!
Run out of business for campaign donations no doubt.
Probably comes down to business environment.
[ They just partnered with Australian rare earths mining company ]
They’s a little town in Australia, where dem white folks homicide rate is 200 times what they population is.
It’s across the street from a manganese plant.
What are you putting in my water, white boy?
And my Colt .45?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnM2X9yGP4
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yes. Of course the Democrats are still bought and paid for since Bubba’s days in the WH.
One more of many reasons to be thankful we’ve got Trump and not Cankels for Hire.
Clinton era campaign donations?
Rhone Poulenc had a plant in the Texas City/Pasadena energy corridor in the 70’s & 80’s. I always wondered what became of them.
withhold ALL silver sales to PRC -China from the U.S.
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