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About This Episode Critical minerals are found in nearly every high-tech product we use today. For example, an iPhone is made of over 40 different elements found in dozens of different as-mined critical minerals (e.g. the rocks that come out of the ground). Right now the United States relies on our chief adversary, China, to supply nearly 100 of some of the most important critical minerals. Take for example, the rare earth metals, scandium, and graphite. In this episode I explore a key component of achieving American Minerals Independece: opening new mines for critical minerals. To do this, I sat down with Pini Althaus CEO of USA Rare Earths. Pini is a mining executive with decades of experience capitalizing and setting up new mining operations. USA Rare Earths is building an integrated mine to magnet rare earth supply chain located fully in the United States. Resources & Links Mentioned Critical Minerals Blog #1 Critical Minerals Blog #2 - Rare Earth Supply Chain Disruptions USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries Groundbreaking!: America's New Quest for Mineral Independence (Book) Covid and Rare Earths What are NEO Magnets? Matthew Mcguahnehy GOLD Movie Colorado School of Mines About Our Guest Pini on LinkedIn, here. USA Rare Earths on LinkedIn, here. Subscribe for More Next Frontier We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here. Where Stuff Comes From This Meditation on ‘Where Stuff Comes From’ will help you to navigate the rapidly changing geopolitical, business, and human rights environment that we face today. If you’d like to stay up to date on the latest insights, tactics, and news about ‘Where Stuff Comes From’, subscribe to the ‘Where Stuff Comes From Weekly’ newsletter at this link. Developing a framework for ‘Where Stuff Comes From’ will help you gain the confidence that you need avoid being caught flat footed, unprepared, and reflecting retrospectively: “Well, I guess THAT’S where that stuff comes from.”