red wrote: yup i did read and seems a bit negative to me in terms of maybe i did not know that we are so far behgind china and russia and that we are years away from development - sorry the whole thing looked depressing to me ...but again if there are mining like the guy in the picture we will never be producing
"For now, rare earths are expensive and difficult to produce because there are many processing steps before recovery, said Bubar.
"This is why [rare earths] have not been developed in other places outside of China," he said.
Bubar said the agreement shows U.S. and Canadian governments know they need to make research investments if North America is ever to have a domestic supply chain"
and looks like i am caught up in the promotional hype ....
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Chakhmouradian said deposits in the N.W.T. will likely see support for exploration efforts, but that the agreement won't have a sustained impact on the Canadian economy.
There is "promotional hype" around Canadian deposits, but "Canada has really nothing to offer that would be comparable to other deposits ... outside of North America," he said.
That includes Russia, Australia and China"
Read into it want you want but i just learned somethng lol