[Mcguffed]

Fun fact most, of the production came from the Mountain Pass rare earth mine, it's on the right side of the highway when you drive from Vegas to LA

[SkyMarshal]

There was a recent article talking about the history of that mine, how rights were sold to a Chinese-led Consortium during the free-market 90s.

http://theweek.com/articles/765276/how-china-win-trade-war-1...