Companies are looking for rare earths minerals in Southern Nevada, only existing US rare earths mine as of 2012 is near Nevada border in California

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4/19/14, "Lessons Learned and Lessons Missed from the Attempted Land Grab," Canada Free Press, Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

"We learned that the government will do anything to private citizens in order to grab land and private property either under the guise of protecting an “endangered” desert tortoise that is actually overpopulated, or getting rid of “feral” and destructive “trespassing cattle” grazing the land for generations, cattle that are in the way of developing a $5 billion Chinese solar panel plant (ENN), and the exploitation of rare earth elements in the larger adjacent area."....
  
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Companies are looking in Southern Nevada for valuable rare earths minerals. The only US rare earths mine as of 2012 is near the Nevada border in California. Rare earths may not be the government's current interest in Nevada ranch land but it might become so in the future:

5/15/2012, "The Diversification of Nevada Mining: Searching for Rare Earths," Nevada Mining Assn.

"The United States currently has only one rare earths mine, Molycorp located in Mountain Pass, Calif., in operation....
 
So where does Nevada fit into the rare earths picture? Molycorp’s Mountain Pass mine is located just miles from the Nevada-California border, south of Las Vegas."...

[Note: The Bundy ranch is 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.] 

(continuing): "For this reason, many exploration companies believe rare earths must exist in large concentrations in Southern Nevada. As with any mineral exploration, the process can be long and expensive, but that has not deterred several companies from searching for rare earths in Southern Nevada.

Should these companies discover mineable rare earths in Nevada, the state would only strengthen its position as a major, global producer of high-demand minerals. The potential for discovery alone is enough to excite industry experts, and the search for rare earths in Nevada is one we should all watch in the coming years."

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4/19/14,  Per mrdata.usgs.gov. Molycorp rare earths mine is located in San Bernardino County, California, near southern Nevada border, within 3 Nevada watersheds: Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys(hydrologic unit)Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit), Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)." 

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4/17/14, "BLM: 2 bulls euthanized during Cliven Bundy cattle roundup," Las Vegas Review Journal, Ben Botkin, Keith Rogers

"Bundy’s ranch in Bunkerville, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas."...



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