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USAR directional thesis

A pure-play domestic refiner gets bid as Washington pours billions into onshoring the one link America is missing: turning rare earth rock into refined metal at home instead of shipping it to China.

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“If you take like refining of ore, I'd say roughly China does more, does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined.”
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