This issue has been a long time coming and China has warned us about it at least 10 years ago (probably longer). We used to have a mine in California called Mou

This issue has been a long time coming and China has warned us about it at least 10 years ago (probably longer). We used to have a mine in California called Mountain pass mine, but it had a toxic spill in the early 00's and never reopened due to Chinese competition. There were plans to reactivate the mine, and it looks like it is now producing more than 12% of the worlds production (https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-rare-earths.pdf https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-rare-earth...)