The United States is getting closer to "rare earth independence." In recent years, the United States has started to build a rare earth industry chain without Chinese companies through government funding and alliances. The U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and other departments have been heavily funding basic research, processing and production of rare earths since 2019. Both the United States and its Allies have seen more mining and more investment in recent years.
The United States last year (17 November) announced grants of nearly $13 million to three companies to build rare earth facilities. The PENTAGON was authorized late last year to invest directly in separate rare earth production capacity. It is the first financial investment by the US military in commercial-scale rare earth production since the Manhattan Project produced the first atomic bomb during world War II.
American Rare Earths, an Australian company, recently disclosed that it had secured $6.1 million in capital raising and that it had secured licenses to explore for Rare Earths in Arizona and Wyoming. Located in phoenix, Arizona, northwest of La Paz ore not only has the potential to become one of America's largest rare earth ore, and the value of which is the most important is its thorium and uranium and other radioactive elements is extremely low, and legal restrictions on radioactive elements are considered to be in the United States in the 80 s, rare earth the most direct reason hegemony to China. The company's website says there is only one Mountain Pass mine in the United States, so the government has been so aggressive in trying to increase supply that it has given permission to start drilling in La Paz in March 2021.
From rare-earth mining to paint and water pipes to industrial waste of all kinds, many American cities are plagued by traditional lead products. In the US, nearly 30 million people, or one in four Americans, are drinking contaminated tap water, the Daily Mail reported. This contaminated tap water can cause cancer, baby deformities and lead poisoning. What's even scarier is that these people are not concentrated in one state or one region, but scattered in every state in the United States!