Billion Tons of Rare Earths

It's owned by the Aussies...penny stock pump and dump..

Mining interests in Wyoming will probably involve tribal rights.

I'm betting it won't be developed. Mining is not allowed to solve our problems. Neither congress or executive power can open our resources. Judges will still allow suits all thru-out this project's life. And agency rules can change yearly. A permit or a contract has no surety.

We have many solutions but our present system won't let anyone use them. We are not allowed to use the advantage we have.

This land of opportunity.

The problems with mining rare earths are many, chiefly that uranium and thorium are situated in close proximity, and are open pit mined...so very environmentally risky ...

..."Rare earths are mined by digging vast open pits in the ground, which can contaminate the environment and disrupt ecosystems. When poorly regulated, mining can produce wastewater ponds filled with acids, heavy metals and radioactive material that might leak into groundwater.Jan 11, 2023 "..

..."REEs are extracted through extensive open-pit mining, a process that not only consumes high amounts of energy, but can also lead to environmental issues such as water pollution and radioactive waste, and the disruption of ecosystems.Sep 8, 2023"...

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm-rare-earths-mining-wastes

There's no shortage of rare earth metals in the US....the problem is mining it...nobody wants this cesspool anywhere near civilization....

..."So-called “rare earths,” metals with names like Yttrium and Scandium, are not really all that rare. Most are more abundant than silver, gold and platinum.

They are found in small concentrations, rather than in large, natural stores.

The United States currently imports more than 80% of its rare earth elements from offshore suppliers. A recent federal supply-chain assessment found an “over-reliance on foreign sources and adversarial nations.”

... Florida’s phosphate deposits, mined by the fertilizer industry for over a century, could have a second life as a major supplier of rare-earth minerals.

“We could satisfy nearly 50% of the U.S. demand for many of the critical rare earth elements from Florida,” said Chunhong “Patrick” Zhang, director of mining and beneficiation research at the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute (FIPR) in Lakeland.

If the US declares that the rare earth resources as a strategic resource. The government can step in and control it. Which can have its benefits.

one of methods to extract the rare earth metals, is to remove the top soil, which can and will affect the ground water quality.

And then create leaching pools where chemicals are added that are used to separate out the rare earth elements from the ore. These leaching pools fail, usually by greed and incompetent bureaucrats, usually both and the same person.