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US Says to Take Action to Ensure Rare Earths Supply

posted by martyb on Thursday June 06 2019, @02:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the Just-how-many-Earths-are-there? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

The United States says it will take "unprecedented actions" to ensure the supply of strategic elements and rare earths, as China mulls possible export controls for materials that are critical to modern technology.
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In December 2017, Trump called on the Department of Commerce and other US agencies to develop new sources of critical materials to reduce vulnerabilities to supply disruptions, especially from foreign sources.

The US report calls for improving supplies "through investment and trade with America's allies," while streamlining the issuance of permits for mining in the United States, including on federal lands.

It also lists a plan to improve mapping and data collection to promote domestic exploration.

And to think only a few short decades ago we were going to war for oil...

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:27PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:27PM (#852286) Journal

    How does one come by a flat in Tallinn, as a non-Estonian? Out of curiosity.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @10:31PM (#852463)

    Go for the hookers and cocaine and stay for... The hookers and cocaine. FatPhil amirite?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 07 2019, @10:21AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday June 07 2019, @10:21AM (#852599) Homepage
    That might depend on whether you were buying for a holiday flat, or wanted residency too. The latter's trivial for an EU citizen. The former, I'm not sure about, but there are tons of Finns and Russians who have flats here, so there can't be too many wrinkles in the process. Estonia's quite inviting, and the paperwork is fairly minimal and efficient. If you want URLs or anything, I can hunt stuff out for you, just drop me a mail - fatphil @ fatphil.org
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