Mining Rare Minerals on the Moon

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Full title: Is Mining Rare Minerals on the Moon Vital to National Security?

The phrase that caught my attention was:

"It seems that there is significant quantity of REE's in North America, [it's] just not profitable to refine them ... yet. What value is the strategic element in this? Can one put a price on this? If so, it may be economically viable to explore the moon and extract the REEs," Boucher said.
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It’s actually an interesting article speculating about how the high concentrations of particularly-prized elements occurred on old Luna.

Enjoy, KF
 
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