USA on the long road to independence from China
The US is having a hard time breaking its dependence on Chinese rare earths The US Department of Defense has just promised to finance two rare earth separation facilities on US soil. It's a small step towards the Trump administration's stated goal of breaking the country's reliance on Chinese supplies of critical minerals. But the direct [...]
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Glencore & Volkswagen: When car manufacturers entered mining.
Glencore & Volkswagen: When the automobile manufacturers advanced into the mining industry. The inside report on how VW tried to buy up the cobalt market. In November of last year, executives of the car giant VW visited the Wolfsburg football stadium in Germany. The stadium is on the edge of a huge car complex that was built in the 1930s, complete with two power plants, [...]
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