Straight from the mouth of Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeIt is time for the U.S. to take a leading position, Zinke said. And its not that we dont have the minerals in the U.S. Its likely we do. The executive order says that the federal government will be identifying new sources of critical minerals and increasing activity at all levels of the supply chain, including exploration, mining, concentration, separation, alloying, recycling and reprocessing critical minerals. Zinke and other Interior officials acknowledged that China has emerged as the worlds dominant critical minerals supplier because it sells these materials for less, and they did not specify how the United States would boost production given that price differential. In some instances, China has flooded the market with commodities at a low price and later raised it once their competitors are out of business. We do know there are deposits that could, in theory, supply all of our needs, said Larry Meinert, USGS acting deputy associate director for energy and minerals. This gets into basic economics, supply and demand " ......... So they are saying they know they have the domestic supply in the ground but need to find away to somehow produce these critical minerals one of the most important being Lithium at an economical level ....... This is why these lithium tech extraction results that are about to be announced are coming at such a perfect time to coincide with this ever growing need to produce lithium domestically ..... i believe that SX is about to change the very footprint of how mining companies evaluate the feasability of getting lithium out of the ground in such places like Clayton valley that has tremendous resources of lithium in brine but as of yet has found no econmical way of getting it to market ........ the very thoughts that a small company like SX could change all this at such a crucial time is simply mind blowing and could propel us to share price heights unthinkable right now ......... SD1