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To: Sam who wrote (337680)	6/9/2025 2:44:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By rdkflorida2 Sam Respond to of 360672

Blocked by Trump and Elmo? U.S. Begins Forging Rare Earth Supply Chain National Defense Magazine Feb 10, 2023 — The country controls nearly 60 percent of rare earth mining operations, more than 85 percent of processing capacity and more than 90 percent of permanent ... == FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Further ... National Archives (.gov) Sep 20, 2024 — The Biden-Harris Administration has mobilized historic resources to strengthen domestic critical minerals supply chains, from mining to manufacturing to ...

To: Sam who wrote (337680)	6/9/2025 3:15:33 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 360672

As I have posted before, rare earths are neither 'earths' nor 'rare'. Even economic deposits are common. It is just the refining is so expensive for the very reasons that they are now valuable. They are all so chemically similar that the differences in quantum effects become noticeable and can be exploited. However, to get pure elements takes a lot of expensive equipment and generates nasty wastes. Given that it has been a low margin business, it was both ripe for offshoring or being shutdown totally. And here we are. We need to invest billions to get the capability back. We only need to do it because Trump did a stupid. One can argue that we need to do it anyway. But on a crash schedule makes it more expensive, maybe even orders of magnitude more. Certainly some multiple.