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|    The Natural Philosopher to All    |
|    Re: The "Standards" Game    |
|    06 Dec 25 12:13:28    |
      XPost: comp.os.linux.misc       From: tnp@invalid.invalid              On 06/12/2025 02:34, c186282 wrote:       > But REFINING the ores is a pain in the ass. At present       > China has almost all of the worlds capacity. The USA       > and some EU countries are at the starting stage for       > building similar facilities ... but that's going to take       > a few years.       >       China was clever here. They made exporting the ores illegal and       subsidised production to a level that essentially rendered it       uncompetitive to process US ores on US soil.,       The point is the USA already has all it needs, but at a cost that cant       compete with china.              All it has to do is subsidises rare earths as a strategically important       industry, and re-open the neodymium mines, After spending a year       pumping out the water.              > The elements ARE kind-of 'rare' too ... not like iron       > or aluminum or copper.              "Neodymium is not found naturally in metallic form or unmixed with other       lanthanides, and it is usually refined for general use. Neodymium is       fairly common—about as common as cobalt, nickel, or copper—and is widely       distributed in the Earth's crust" [wiki]              They merely don't occur in such high concentrations or unmixed ores.       IIRC they were a by product of cobalt mining.              Processing neodymium makes a great big chemical mess* too. In the USA       the toad lickers would be up in arms..              *sulphuric and hydrofluoric acid, and silicon tetrafluroride, Enough to       give the average Califiornian a heart attack just thinking about.              --       Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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