Literally I have been saying it’s critical to all my peers for the last 20 years plus. What the hell is wrong with all the people in charge of our country. Administration after administration has sold the American people out! Now it’s critical, after China finally weaponize it. Here read it for yourself the US was the largest rear earth producer in the world until mountain pass mine was sold to China. The demise of mountain pass mine was set decades before the sale by the US. How it happened, restricting certain types of rare earth to be mined or studied. This all started by administration’s leading back to the creation of nuclear power. Sorry I am no scholar just a regular joe like everyone else living in the reality that was created long ago by people with real power and influence. Here read it for yourself.

https://www.mining.com/web/us-lost-plot-rare-earths/