United States Opens First Rare Earth Mine In Over 70 Years – ‘Unleash American Mineral Development’

The United States will open its first rare earth mining facility in over 70 years.

“The U.S. is opening its first Rare Earth mine in more than 70 years— providing a critical supply of six of the seventeen Rare Earth elements that are used in everything from war planes to semiconductors to our smartphones,” the Rapid Response 47 account wrote on X.

The facility will open in Ranchester, Wyoming, with a ribbon cutting for the Brook Mine Carbon Ore Rare Earth project on Friday.

“I’m looking forward to attending Ramaco’s opening of the nation’s first rare earth mine in more than 70 years and the first new coal mine in Wyoming in over 50 years,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox Business.

“This is just the

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