Although these separation plants aren't big compared to mines, US mines had been sending rare earth ores to China for processing. That's gradually moving back to the US as more separating plants are built.
Although these separation plants aren't big compared to mines, US mines had been sending rare earth ores to China for processing. That's gradually moving back to the US as more separating plants are built.
I guess I'm surprised at the absence of flue stacks and cooling towers at the facility shown in the video.
Perhaps the facility in the video only shows "cleaner" downstream processing for marketing appeal, or separation processes are fundamentally different?
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/60-minutes_rareearths-activit...
So,the big players have taken a wrecking ball to minerals by shorting the sector to oblivion, but will have no problem riding the wave back up once the bottom is in...
MP Minerals is now getting subsidies from both the U.S. Government and General Motors, both of which want a reliable source of magnets outside China. There are other sites in the US and Australia which could be developed if it was profitable. (Operating in Greenland, per Trump, is silly. The costs of operating anything big there are very high. No roads, no infrastructure, only a few months a year of ice-free construction time...)
[1] https://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-9-76...
It's literal lube for the grinding wheels of commerce.
Some can get by on the technical reports and capex and projected returns, others want a bit of "a vision" / proof of big shed and machinery.
Literal lube is lube. This is not lube. This is a video.
Seems literal to me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite#Drilling_mud
But a video isn't literally lube :) it's a video.
Etiquette is a mere lubricant of the order of society.
OED entry "lubricant" (B.noun) Fine music‥has a sensible effect in‥animating and as it were, lubricating my inventive faculty.
OED entry "lubricate" (2.a verb)Lube also used for cash - greasing palms, etc.
But, I just ignore the word literally and english still works just fine
We are literally already paying attention. It's literally redundant.