Saturday, March 13, 2010
"U.S. Sitting on Mother Lode of Rare Tech-Crucial Minerals"
This sounds pretty good...
Jeremy Hsu reports at LiveScience.com:
"'The fact is, the Diamond Creek property is today, the most accessible, undeveloped rare earth resource with significant [heavy rare earths] that there is in North America,' said Jack Lifton, an independent consultant who works with U.S. Rare Earths.
Recent USGS figures estimate that the U.S. holds rare earth ore reserves of up to 13 million metric tons. By contrast, the entire world produced just 124,000 metric tons in 2009..."
