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The US needs more mines for crucial transition metals
In the US, demand for metals critical to the green transition continues to climb sharply. But the development of new mines there that could help fulfil that need has reduced to a crawl. The FT’s Amanda Chu looks at the reasons behind the slow progress and what America is doing to address the problem.
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