How China Took Over Rare Earths, and the New discovery that Changes EVERYTHING

A new discovery in wyoming could change the balance of power in geopolitics

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[huma]

It won't change anything right away. There was always an understanding that the resources were present in the US, however getting them from China was a long term strategic move - China actively works to deplete its supplies of the materials and pollute its land and people extracting them while the US gets the benefits of the end products. By the time the US needs the materials the processes for extracting them should be safer and less toxic and the US will be left with the larger levels of resources to gain benefits from.

[shadowjewel]

Regarding the water in China; from what I have heard, the last stats released in China was from something like 2016, when over 80% of China's ground water had been polluted and was no longer drinkable, and a significant portion was no longer useable for anything at all (can't remember the numbers there). After that they have not only stopped realising the stats, which with China means they are trying not to embarrass themselves, but they have also only gotten worse in terms of water pollution and pollution over all, and are getting worse now every month. You can not drink the tap water in China at all, everyone must drink bottled water or risk things like heavy metal poisoning, domestic produce is largely regarded by the population as more toxic/less safe then imports, and regions of the country have villages that are plagued by disease caused by industrial toxins, like epidemics of tumours. It's absolutely horrible, their lack of care for health and safety has ruined them and I hate what industry and government and corruption has done to the country.

[gholland]

Wyoming has everything energy sector. Most of the uranium we have ever mined, so much wind energy that a huge cable to California is being built to power that state out of Rawlins, enough coal to power the USA for 2000 years (40% of all US coal mining currently and the world's largest coal mine), and some decent oil production too.

That wind combined with the cold though... flipping over a box truck in 60 mile an hour winds while it is -30 out is a distinctly Wyoming experience.

[okomi]

how dare you keep releasing well researched informative videos? where do you think you are mister? somebody timeout this man.

[chugachuga]

Wow, America really just is the easy mode start in terms of natural resources.

[thatoneguyiii]

-> shortage of strategic resource
>large amount of that resource is held by a foreign rival
>”US hegemony is finished”
>largest deposit of that resource ever found is dug up by some hick in the middle of nowhere

[aRealAndHumanManThing]

Your timing is perfect!
Just after my adhd ass ran out of interesting podcast-like content to play in background

[Conicee]

Holy cow! I knew Wyoming had an abundance of diffrent types of minerals and resources I just didn't know that that also included rare earth's! It makes since though when you think about it because the Yellowstone volcano is right there after all.

[capnstewy]

There might be an uptick in attractive Chinese women at the singles bars in Wyoming.

[ComfyWombat]

Australia has a new REO refining plant coming on line soon. Up in Northern Western Australia.

[D.w.X-]

Brazil with 94% of all Niobium of the world

[Exodlus]

So what you're saying is, I should invest heavily in REM's...

[Toadaboticus]

Is anyone else paying attention to how Nvidia Is going to be the first real-world MegaCorp since they have a world wide monopoly on A.I processor technology.
Saw a post about how they have the next 3 generations of A.I chips ready but have been setting a quota on military and government contracts with the current iterations before they start selling the next batch, they just unveiled the Blackwell and its 4x faster and 25x less expensive.

[Sentientdreamer]

Cowboy State Daily is published in Wyoming for Wyoming.
They have good information on the website/newspaper.
Kemmerer Wyoming is also going through a big energy boom due to nuclear energy.
It's crazy to me as a long time resident of Wyoming.

[niefali]

Fascinating situation.
The world doesnt like its dependancy on China for REMs, but at the same time doesnt neede enough of it to make mining and dealing with the process valuable or actually worth it.

[steven_tesla]

When I was doing my undergrad as a geoscience major, two of my professors were and still are very interested in REE research, such as how the deposits are formed since they’re a very unique type of deposit on the earth, and there is still a lot of uncertainty as to how they form and get distributed/concentrated. We took a field trip and while on it we went to the only REM mine active in the USA, the Mountain Pass Mine. If I remember correctly they are one of the facilities where Chinese investors bought rare earth metal extraction technologies to provide a boost to their native industries back in China. Crazy to think how much life would be different if they weren’t present in the amounts that they are. Hope to see more concentrated deposits be discovered around the world to help advance humanity even further.

[seanbrennan]

Reminds me of how we got our titanium and uranium from Cold War Russia from what I remember reading so we figured out they were making a submarine out of titanium was the pieces they sent us

[AndersWurtz]

Regarding the price of cars: there's no rare earth elements in a car battery. And most motors are made made without the use of rare earth elements

[ryanwilliams]

The fact that there is already an excessive amount of demand awaiting its absorption, despite how everyone is frightened and calling the crash, is another reason why it is less likely to occur that way. 2008 saw no one, at least not the broad public, making this forecast, as I'll explain below. The ownership rate was noted to have peaked in 2004 in the other comment. Having previously peaked in the second quarter of 2020, we are currently at the median level. Between 2008 and 2012, it dropped by 3%, and by the second quarter of 2020, it had dropped from 68 to 65.

[brackpin]

Once again, a well done informative vid. Keep up the great work.