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Yes it does seem to be more sold in pounds not tons, but processing 15 pounds of it would give Sayona the same bang as 1 ton of spod. I agree the defense department was the one who initially sounded the alarm over China in the US, I have been tracking this ever since it started back in the Obama years. When the defense department sounds the alarm and both parties get behind it, it usually is a pretty big deal. I am not talking just rubidium, I am talking all rare earths. Here is the full list and any of these found would be prized.

I won't go completely down your black ops theory, but if Obama and Trump agreed on anything it was a miracle and this just so happens to be the one thing they did both feel very strongly that needed to be fixed. Now Biden is agreeing with both, you get the drift here.

• Aluminum (bauxite), used in almost all sectors of the economy
• Antimony, used in batteries and flame retardants
• Arsenic, used in lumber preservatives, pesticides, and semi-conductors
• Barite, used in cement and petroleum industries
• Beryllium, used as an alloying agent in aerospace and defense industries
• Bismuth, used in medical and atomic research
• Cesium, used in research and development
• Chromium, used primarily in stainless steel and other alloys
• Cobalt, used in rechargeable batteries and superalloys
• Fluorspar, used in the manufacture of aluminum, gasoline, and uranium fuel
• Gallium, used for integrated circuits and optical devices like LEDs
• Germanium, used for fiber optics and night vision applications
• Graphite (natural), used for lubricants, batteries, and fuel cells
• Hafnium, used for nuclear control rods, alloys, and high-temperature ceramics
• Helium, used for MRIs, lifting agent, and research
• Indium, mostly used in LCD screens
• Lithium, used primarily for batteries
• Magnesium, used in furnace linings for manufacturing steel and ceramics
• Manganese, used in steelmaking
• Niobium, used mostly in steel alloys
• Platinum group metals, used for catalytic agents
• Potash, primarily used as a fertilizer
• Rare earth elements group, primarily used in batteries and electronics
• Rhenium, used for lead-free gasoline and superalloys
• Rubidium, used for research and development in electronics
• Scandium, used for alloys and fuel cells
• Strontium, used for pyrotechnics and ceramic magnets
• Tantalum, used in electronic components, mostly capacitors
• Tellurium, used in steelmaking and solar cells
• Tin, used as protective coatings and alloys for steel
• Titanium, overwhelmingly used as a white pigment or metal alloys
• Tungsten, primarily used to make wear-resistant metals
• Uranium, mostly used for nuclear fuel; depleted U used in military munitions
• Vanadium, primarily used for titanium alloys
• Zirconium, used in the high-temperature ceramics industries