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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/11/2025 03:23, spike wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt">The manufacture of domestic rare earth magnets has resumed. The refineries we were told would take years are going again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">eVAC Magnetics based in South Carolina demonstrated one of its new products today, made in USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a
href="https://evac-magnetics.com/" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://evac-magnetics.com/</a></span></p></pre>
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Ignoring the bad english, and use of the old 'Up to...', let's
suppose they can actually make rare-earth magnets as claimed. Where
are they getting the Neodymium from? No mention of that, no mention
of any rare-earth refineries. No indication that they aren't getting
the neodymium from china.<br>
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"leading the effort to 're-shore' (?? I assume that must mean
'restore', or maybe it's meant to imply that without actually
committing to it) critical mineral and rare-earth magnet supply
chains to America" is the only reference to anything suggesting
domestic rare-earths, and it's really just a marketing phrase, not
evidence (or even a claim) of anything concrete.<br>
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They seem to be carefully avoiding any mention of where the
neodymium actually comes from. If it is really mined and refined in
the US, I see no reason for this. I should think they would be
trumpeting it. Instead we have weasel words intended to make the
reader assume it.<br>
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Not half as reassuring as it seems, I think.<br>
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OK, after a little bit of ferreting, I found that they are linked to
Ucore, who have rare-earth processing facilities in Louisiana and
Ontario. It seems my pessimism is unwarranted (somebody has to be a
pessimist here, if just to balance spike's unbounded optimism). But
why the evasive language? Why aren't they stating that the neodymium
they use is mined and refined in north america? Politics? (don't
mention canada!).<br>
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Further ferreting found: "Ucore plans to import thousands of metric
tons of high-purity rare earth feedstocks from around the world to
its Louisiana Strategic Metals Complex through the Port of New
Orleans."<br>
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So not mined in north america, then, but processed in the US.<br>
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Oh, Greenland! Of course!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UURAF/ucore-executes-supply-agreement-with-critical-metals-754kbfxy924r.html">https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UURAF/ucore-executes-supply-agreement-with-critical-metals-754kbfxy924r.html</a><br>
"... 10-year arrangement will source materials from CMC's Tanbreez
Project in Greenland to supply Ucore's Strategic Metals Complex in
Louisiana and Commercial Demonstration Facility in Ontario"<br>
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Also Australia<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UURAF/ucore-signs-heads-of-agreement-with-wyloo-and-hastings-to-secure-b0ev90am4vy8.html">https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UURAF/ucore-signs-heads-of-agreement-with-wyloo-and-hastings-to-secure-b0ev90am4vy8.html</a><br>
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So maybe eVac are just fudging round the fact that the rare-earths
are not from america, while still implying it. Why, I don't know. I
see no benefit, and potential harm, if people find out they are not
lying, exactly, but certainly bending the truth. They could have
just said "rare-earths mined in the western world and refined in the
US..."
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Ben</pre>
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