China's Taking a Golden Goose Opportunity and Running With It

The d o d is planning to provide 35 million dollars in funding for a rare earths processing plant in the mountain pass mine in california. The doe has another three billion dollar investment in refining green metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. And there's also a lot of talk about subsidizing domestic mining interests, or even nationalizing them. These materials may not get a lot of coverage on your average evening news programme, but that might change as they become increasing flash points for talks of trade wars,. But at this point, a hot war between china and the us Is unlikely, based on the situation.