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Driving domestic production of critical materials and rare earth elements

Resilinc

How effective Biden’s invocation of the DPA—which followed the administration’s February release of a memo updating its efforts to revitalize domestic manufacturing and supply chains for a broad array of vital materials and products—is an open question. In 2002, after the only major U.S. Warning that the U.S.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. The idea with physical tracking is to cascade sustainability claims, alongside the physical product, from source to manufacturer.