@FoxNews Aluminum is not at all rare. It requires a lot of electricity to refine it which is why everyone buys it from Canada and Iceland who have hydro to spare. The US can't compete and shouldn't try.
@FoxNews First, the approval is not complete. A company did find a big lump of Tungsten and some other strategic minerals in Nevada, I believe. The current holdup is that it is on land NASA needs to calibrate satellites. As noted by others mining requires refining.
@EpochTimes Considering Trump has illegally collected over $2 billion dollars in bribes since becoming POTUS and is trying to use public money for at least a billion in vanity projects, maybe Vance should go for the easy cases of waste and fraud right next to him.