US NEEDS RAW MATERIALS STRATEGY: INDUSTRY EXPERTS
January 1st, 2012
BY LEAH GERMAIN
MINERAL market specialists are calling for the United States government to step up investment and support for the country's rare earth mining industry or else the country will lose out on developing important green technologies to competing countries like China.
The comments follow Tuesday's State of the Union address from US president Barack Obama, where he emphasised the importance of developing energy sources that prevent the US from being dependent on foreign resources - both solar energy and wind energy use rare earths. Yet rare earth ...
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