How China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American InnovationHow China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American Innovation
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How China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American Innovation

U.S. innovation could finally start to blunt Beijing’s control over critical minerals.
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By Owen Evans
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The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China’s dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologies at home.

Instead of waiting years for new mines to open, a wave of startups is turning to existing resources to recover metals that Beijing has controlled for decades.

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