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Mining and Minerals blog
China Refines the Minerals Behind Every Battery, and America Let It Happen America has rare earths, lithium and copper in the ground but lets permits drag for years while China dominates processing, a strategic weakness we chose. The 1980 Bet on Five Metals That Settled the Great Scarcity Debate In 1980 Julian Simon bet Paul Ehrlich that five metals would be cheaper in 1990, won by a check in the mail, and showed why human ingenuity outruns scarcity. The Antiquities Act Says Smallest Area Compatible, So Read the Text Again The 1906 Antiquities Act limits a monument to the smallest area compatible with protecting its objects. Read the text beside monuments of millions of acres.