Ground was to be officially broken Friday in Wyoming at the site of a long-defunct coal mine where the first rare-earth mining operations are opening in the United States in more than 70 years, according to the Trump administration.
“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 administration’s Rapid Response 47 team announced on X.
The mining operations are at the site of a one-time coal mine near Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, which was revealed to have large deposits of several vital rare earth and critical minerals, such as terbium, dysprosium, and gallium, which are necessary for semiconductors and national defense purposes, Wyoming Public Media reported.
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