RE:Nov. 2020....My19sixyNineZ wrote: Two bills, S. 2093 and H.R. 4410, would create a federally chartered cooperative and a federally chartered corporation to
mitigate potentially high costs associated with extracting REE from minerals that may be found with radioactive elements
(typically thorium and uranium). The cooperative would accept REE material from domestic and international partners for
processing into salable products. The corporation would accept any related materials containing uranium or thorium from the
cooperative for storage and potential sale. The federally chartered cooperative and corporation would be privately funded.
& the DARPA request for processing DOD needs, came out in June.
They could buy HREE feed for the SMC, under an established corp..... I haven't looked these bills up im a while, but they're from a Congressional Report:
An Overview of Rare Earth Elements and Related Issues for Congress