Simply extracting rare earth minerals is pointless if you can not process & refine them, which is not exactly environmentally friendly.

This is why #China 🇨🇳 dominates the industry, as they can ignore environmental concerns in select regions to perfect these materials.

Most citizens in most nations would not tolerate their environment being ruined over precious elements & greed.

👉🏾 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 has a ton of oil. It also has something else #America 🇺🇸 needs https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/economy/minerals-rare-earths-oil-venezuela