During its operation, between 1984 and 1993, 727,000 gallons of toxic water spilled from the mine into the Mojave National Preserve with spills exceeding 350,000 gallons in 1996 alone.
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Price surges in rare earth metals are causing industrial manufacturers to look for new designs that use less of the elements.
A critical component of today’s high tech and energy consumptive society is controlled by one of America’s largest creditors, China. High guass rare earth magnets are used in disc drives, generators, motors and US...
Read MoreAs mention on this blog before, 98% of all rare earths, many of which are deemed critical to the energy, defense and electric vehicle industries, are controlled by China. This leaves those countries and companies outside of...
Read MoreAmerica’s dependence upon China for rare earths critical to high gauss magnets and many ingredients used in the production of every day items like cell phones and computers has been an issue I have written about several...
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As I have been writing for some time, China controls the rare earth magnet market. With the push for more wind farms and electric vehicles and China’s own growth in these industries, China may stop exporting except within a completed manufactured product made in China.
As noted here before, the Chinese have a near monopoly on the production of high-gauss neodymium magnets crucial to the production of electricity. Now, a once abandoned mine in Mountain Pass, California is being reopened to try...
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