INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
While rare earths, or critical minerals in general, are often cited along with semiconductors as industries the US wants to reshore the
most, the challenges associated with bringing each of them back are very different.Unlike making advanced semiconductors, which requires
The technologies involved to mine and refine them are mature and both the US and Canada have large natural deposits of some of them
efforts to build up the critical minerals supply chain in the US have either been slowed down or called off
profit from, says Lange.But if China succeeds in strictly enforcing its export control policies, it might provide just enough incentive for
the US government and private companies to finally reshore the mineral refining industry
