NEWS: North America has enough rare earths to break China’s global choke hold, study finds

Here’s some critical mineral news: The US and Canada could be sitting on enough rare-earth deposits to curb reliance on Chinese imports. These elements are essential to increasingly key tech like batteries, EVs, and wind turbines. The catch? The mining effort wouldn’t be cheap, and would require plenty of collaboration between the two countries…which is a bit of an ask right now.