Comments on: Safeguarding Our Future Supply of Rare Earths

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By: Tim Starns

Tim Starns — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:02:12 +0000

All of the near term REE mines, save Molycorp and Ucore, are in mine friendly countries. C’est bien, Doc.

By: Michel-Jay LePerlmanier PhD

Michel-Jay LePerlmanier PhD — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:40:32 +0000

Y’all are on the right track but the wrong train. According to the latest from the Department of the Interior and the Secy of the Interior have created more than their share of new Catch-22 legislation and given control to local and state authorities whose aim is shut down mining across the board in many prime mining lands in the Western US. Rather the present administration’s idea of the Green Revolution is the Wall street version of leveraged dollars which could be taxed at higher rates in the form of bonus and income VAT. There will be NO rare earth mining to the extent that low capex and profit would make a difference. The multiplier effect of leveraged dollars beats anything that mining and mining companies could produce in terms of taxes. Y’all have to follow the big money and y’all will see that the green revolution fits the definition of Pareto distribution perfectly: lots more at the top and a lot less at the bottom. WS and this administration will always go for the WS multiplier effect and hence more taxes. In truth, they would love Oil at $100 to $110 today in order to tax further oil and gas explorers and distributors and resellers. Rare earth mining and the money for it are doomed. ACEMAN

By: Tim Starns

Tim Starns — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:48:02 +0000

Mr Traster keyed in on exactly what prompted me to email jack directly. This quote, “I always say to a banker, would you guys please buy Avalon and Great Western and Molycorp and make one company and they say to me, yeah, we will as soon as somebody starts producing. And they’re not joking. It’s logic.’, is nothing short of infuriating when it comes from those who claim to be for free markets, venture capital, and supporting the prospects of the nation’s economic viability. In fact they are precisely the antithesis of these concepts: closed and collusive, timid bordering on cowardly, and insistent on their place at the money trough in spite of the nation’s welfare. Is this the kind of “logic” that made this nation prosper over the past two centuries? Is this the kind of foresight and effort that won WWII, or got us to the Moon?
Jack’s comments are warnings, of the most dire and imminent nature. Unfortunately, they will likely remain unheeded unless the government steps in to marshal the nation’s businesses, banks, and infrastucture to address the scope of this impending black hole of supply, and the unwinding of what is left of our national industries.

By: John Petersen

John Petersen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:04:43 +0000

Global trade implies that each country has something the other party wants. When America dominated all industries life was easy because everybody wanted something she made. As America makes less of the stuff that other countries want and wants more of the stuff that other countries make, the economic outlook for our children and grandchildren becomes increasingly bleak. We lost control of our energy destiny when we lost control of the well to wheel supply chain. Unless we can at least compete in the mine to wheel supply chain, we won’t ever see the driver’s seat again.

By: William Traster

William Traster — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:58:59 +0000

Jack Lifton’s sage insights are a calling to Canada and the United States, or more accurately, a warning.

How Great Western, Avalon, and Molycorp don’t have instutional investors lining up in droves is a mystery. Certainly, if not only for protection of standard of living, both governments should be right now dedicating time and money for the rapid development of Rare Earth Metals for national security reasonings.

If, as in the case of the United States, billions have been allocated for the development of more powerful and longer lasting batteries, then it only stands to reason that monies also be allocated for the development of the metals that make not only batteries, but everything from cell phones to satellites to wind mills to jet engines.

From a standpoint of important people to listen to, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the highest rating, Jack Lifton deserves a ten for his grasp and understanding of an urgent and vital problem that’s in fast track development.