Last month, President Joe Biden said he planned to replace the whole federal vehicle fleet with electric cars, creating one million jobs in the process. Jobs aside, we’re talking about more than 600,000 cars that will be replaced with EVs. And these EVs will need a stable supply of certain metals and minerals that the U.S. now imports. Enter Biden’s mining dilemma. The U.S. President has identified climate change as his number-one priority, yet weaning the country off import dependence on China is also high on his priority list, it seems. This means Chinese imports of rare earths will need to be replaced with local supply. Boosting all American industries is another priority theme for Biden. This means Chilean lithium imports will need to be replaced with local supply. Local supply of rare earths and critical minerals is a great idea, but this means new mines. New mines are […]