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27.05.25 - 07:30
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Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom (The Guardian)
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Critics say the country's unique biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035Kate Selby Smith strides through the undergrowth of a track on the North Island's east coast when the bush suddenly thins to reveal a hidden treasure. “Welcome to my heaven,” she says, gesturing to a bend in the Wharekirauponga stream where a jade-green swimming hole has formed among the rocks and soft green ferns. “Isn't it beautiful?”The fairytale grotto lies at the southern end of Coromandel forest park – a protected conservation area home to native flora and rare animals, including one of the world's rarest amphibians, the Archey's frog. Continue reading......
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25.04.25 - 05:45
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US Can Produce Rare Earths If China Stops Exports - But There′s A Catch (ZeroHedge)
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US Can Produce Rare Earths If China Stops Exports - But There's A Catch
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China's global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets.
An aerial view of the MP Materials' mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., in 2024. MP Materials via AP
While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets, according to Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, American Rare Earths board member and Critical Minerals Institute co-chair.
“Currently in the United States, we have zero magnet manufacturers,” Sanderson told The Epoch Times.
She said that's why China imposed export restrictions on seven “heavy” rare earth elements on April 4 in response to President Donald Trump's April 2 tariff a...
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