Outside China Australia has the potential to dominate REE...

Outside China Australia has the potential to dominate REE production.

Yet effort and investment dissipated so far:
LYC in Malaysia, sort of in Texas and on the way in Kalgoorlie,
ILU with little or no REE experience chosen at random for huge taxpayer funding by normally inert Feds,
HAS and other strong WA contenders and Arafura scrambling for finance.

IXR with Ugandan ionic clays and scandium has found an Irish/EU scientific solution.
ASM with strong Korean IP and capital links proceeding with ultra smart science..

Appeals by those in the industry seeking to co-ordinate both research and unduplicated application of capital have succumbed to Scomo's inertia.

With SA taking mining seriously it should work with WA to overcome what is shaping up to be a worse security disaster than the Solomons debacle.