USA gets serious

This should help our new initive
"Nine countries join U.S. strategic minerals initiative"

https://au.investing.com/news/commodities-news/nine-countries-join-us-strategic-minerals-initiative-1964202The U.S. Department of Defense is also searching for better supplies of strategic minerals, including rare earths, around the globe. Reuters reported in June that the Pentagon held talks with Malawi’s Mkango Resources Ltd, Burundi’s Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd and other miners about securing supply. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Ernest Scheyder Editing by Marguerita Choy)
Washington grew more concerned recently about its dependence on mineral imports after Beijing suggested using them as leverage in the trade war between the world’s largest economic powers. That could interrupt the manufacture of a wide range of consumer, industrial and military goods, including mobile phones, electric vehicles, batteries, and fighter jets.
The countries joining the United States include Australia, Botswana, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, the Philippines and Zambia.
Under the Energy Resource Governance Initiative