What is America’s answer to China’s rare earths dominance? Oklahoma!

T.R.U.S.T.
Jun 17
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REUTERS By Ernest Scheyder

June 18, 2025

SUMMARY

State offers incentives, infrastructure for minerals industry growth
China dominates critical minerals and has banned some exports
State's challenges include education system, lack of mineral deposits

LAWTON, Oklahoma, June 18 (Reuters) - Nestled beneath Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains sits a two-story warehouse containing the only machine in the United States capable of refining nickel, a crucial energy transition metal now dominated by China.

The facility, owned by startup Westwin Elements, aims to help Oklahoma become the epicenter for U.S. critical minerals processing, a sector the country largely abandoned decades ago.

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