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To: riversides who wrote (32769)	3/14/2010 11:49:57 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	Respond to of 233956

" The United States Geological Survey recognizes seventeen rare earth elements composed of scandium, yttrium, and fifteen different lanthanides" But they refuse to recognize unobtanium due to the devastating defeat of their exploration team on Pandora where they lost hundreds of scouting helicopters and thousands of "men".

To: riversides who wrote (32769)	3/15/2010 12:34:35 PM
From: E. Charters	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 233956

Mountain Pass was shut down for two reasons, low prices of RE's which still persist, and environmental pressure from guvmint. EC<:-}

To: riversides who wrote (32769)	3/15/2010 1:33:47 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 233956

The crying need for RE's in the new world, slightly greener, economy should highlight the plays for a while. The companies all wax euphoric over the prospects of taking part in the new emerging western market, which they deny will be predated by a putative, raw-material-dumping, "wildcard" China, as they see China's needs to overshadow their own for these metals. Demand they say, is just starting to be felt, irrespective of the Chinese supply. The probability taht that most explorers will not get into production with far flung enterprise which needs shipping lanes, roads or rail is being at present ignored. One explorer is being held up in Ontario by native protests, (Clay Howells deposit), which seems like standard practive by now mining unfriendly Ontario. It seems Ontario is the next Ecuador here. Politicians have made this bed, and are letting the miners fall out of it, a disorganized political mess that purports to legislate fairness to the "stakeholders" while making it far more certain that there will nothing for anyone to have any stake in in not too long. It has been going on since the 70's, recalcitrant defective governments downloading all kinds of pressure onto high cost low hit rate markets, to make it ever more unpopular to explore at home. For a while it seemed like explorers wanted to return home after Mongolia, Ecuador, Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Phillipines all proved massively corrupt or difficult in other ways, but I don't think the trend will continue. These things seem to go in long cycles. You can look back 400 years and see it. Markets, government policies all change in grand cycles to make the miners wax and wane. It is never easy getting mining money, and I don't think it is going to get any easier. EC<:-}