{"id":39145,"date":"2020-06-19T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39145"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:15:49","slug":"great-news-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39145","title":{"rendered":"Great News For America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy independence is wonderful, but in today’s technology age, there are other important areas where America needs to be self-sustaining. One of the them is the rare earth minerals used in the manufacture of our technology. On Wednesday (updated yesterday) The Epoch Times<\/a> posted an article about one step that has been taken in this direction.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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Owners of the Wheat Ridge facility for processing rare earth elements<\/a> and critical minerals have received an operating permit that will enable minerals critical to advanced technology manufacturing to be mined and processed in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

USA Rare Earth, LLC<\/a>, and Texas Mineral Resources Corp.<\/a> announced on June 18 that their Wheat Ridge, Colorado, facility has received its operating permit, with its pilot plant now in the commissioning process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Texas Mineral said in a press release that the plant \u201cwill have the ability to produce the full range of high purity, separated rare earths as well as other critical minerals \u2026 which are essential for modern manufacturing ranging from defense applications to wind turbines, electric vehicles, smart phones, advanced medical devices, and the physical backbone of emerging 5G networks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company says its objective is \u201cto build the first rare earth and critical minerals processing facility outside China.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CEO of USA Rare Earth, Pini Althaus, said in a press release that the establishment of an independent, robust, and domestic rare earth metal and critical mineral supply chain is vital for the United States, \u201covercoming reliance on China.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congress and President Trump have both recognized the need to produce these minerals in America.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Reps.\u00a0Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) and\u00a0Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation (pdf<\/a>) on May 28 to protect American mineral supply chains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gosar described<\/a> critical minerals as the building blocks of our modern lives, as they are vitally important for special components in defense systems, health care applications, and energy generation technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor years, our country has become increasingly dependent on China and other nations to fulfill our demand for minerals,\u201d said Gosar. \u201cThe global pandemic has demonstrated the severe consequences of allowing this longstanding over-reliance on China to go unchecked.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waltz said<\/a> that critical minerals are integral to our way of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs coronavirus has unfortunately demonstrated, if China can threaten to cut off our pharmaceutical supply, they can do the same with their supply of rare earth minerals,\u201d\u00a0said Waltz. \u201cWe need to bring this supply chain back to America\u2014and this bill will be an important step to do that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13817<\/a> in December 2017, titled \u201cA Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals.\u201d The order directed federal agencies to list critical minerals, develop strategies to reduce reliance on the minerals themselves and on foreign suppliers, and increase domestic production.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The positive impact of the coronavirus is that it reminded us that as a nation we need to be as self-sufficient as possible. It is encouraging to see steps being taken in this direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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