Rare Earths for America’s Future

The world experienced the skewed distribution.11 Given that the United impact of China’s dominance of the REE supply States is home to just 3% of known mineable REE chain in September 2010, when China’s military deposits, it is critically important for the country halted a routine shipment of REEs to Japan in to explore alternatives to terrestrial mining for response to Japan’s detention of the ca. [...] The hundred square feet and the environmental exact processing methods will depend on the impact of the drilling activities will strongly characteristics of the mineral ore in the deposit, depend on the size and accessibility of the but in general the first step in this process resource, as well as local geologic characteristics. [...] This project started Commerce, Secretaries of Defense, and the producing REEs in 1952 under the direction of Interior, Agriculture, and Energy, and the United the Molybdenum Corporation of America and at States Trade Representative to “ensure [the] its peak in the 1980s, it met 100% of America’s secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals,” REE demands and accounted for 33% of global which i. [...] The mining would occur on the moon before the economic challenges associated with deep end of the century.120 The interest in mining space mining efforts are readily seen in the the moon for REEs has gained traction due to high-profile failures of two domestic asteroid (1) the declining cost of space access resulting mining companies — Planetary Resources and from the maturation of reusable launch. [...] has not ratified the UN Convention on the mine in California could not compete with Law of the Sea, a prerequisite to participate in the cheap supply of REEs from Chinese ISA, it will not be part of the negotiations leading producers flooding the global markets in up to the vote.129 Finally, deep sea mining is the early 2000s.