This company is America's best chance to loosen China's grip on rare earths

Less than an hour from the glitzy casinos and high-rise hotels of Las Vegas, the miners at Mountain Pass are reviving an industry that nearly disappeared from American soil. This is the only mine in the country devoted to rare earths, elements essential to modern electronics. Rare earths are contained in everything from iPhones to wind turbines to Teslas.

"If there's going to be an American rare earths industry, it's gonna be led by us. We're it," said James Litinksy, the co-chairman of MP Materials, which owns the mine in Mountain Pass, California.

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