A once-shuttered California mine is trying to transform the rare earth industry

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By Maddie StoneJun 15, 2023, 10:45 am156 pts
In arid southeastern California, just across the border from Nevada, sits the only large-scale rare earth element mine in the Western Hemisphere. Here at Mountain Pass, rocks are dug out of a 400-foot pit in the ground, crushed, and liquified into a concentrated soup of metals that are essential for the magnets…

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