China Is Hoarding Minerals Used for Smartphones and iPads, Obama Warns

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Mnementh said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
China will be happy to sell its batteries to USA at a very high price. Then USA will better seriously recycle old batteries to recover rare earths from them, instead of "exporting" hi-tech wastes to third world.

Problem solved.

No need to recycle for the US, they have big amount of rare earth minerals, but do not mine them at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine

I imagined that in such a large country there shouldn't be shortages of any element, then it's just matter that they prefer to deplete Chinese reserves, and at low extraction costs too, without having to respect either the environment or the workers. And the Hypocrisy Award goes again to the Promised Land of Bigots!