The U.S. Wants a Rare-Earths Supply Chain. Here's Why It Won't Come Easily.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Yet, during the time when mining was suspended at the site, the rare-earth industry shifted from niche products to reaching critical status in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
53% : The rare-earths supply chain is typically made up of three main parts: mining and concentrating the raw materials, refining them to produce oxides and producing the magnet.
48% : After financial and environmental struggles at the turn of this century, mining at the site was suspended in 2002 before being bought and restarted in 2017 by MP Materials Corp. , a Las-Vegas-based rare-earth producer.

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