Originally Posted by
Xeptu
Australia has them and plenty of it, not far from where I live actually, they are mined and processed but not in the volumes China does because those products are manufactured there. If that ends permanently then no doubt we will ramp up for the export market. An investment tip for you.
Issue is not the extraction or deposits (note US is buying up a lot of the deposits in australia) its the refining. Its a very nasty and enviormentally bad process, china can just go screw it and ignore