Thank you for your post about REEs. The 60 Minutes story certainly did highlight the "challenges" of mining REEs. But it would seem such an important factor for national security that the US (Pentagon but possibly also private companies who use REEs) would subsidize mining, maybe even early exploration, to mitigate the high cost. As the show mentioned, China can produce more cheaply because of low wages and total lack of enivironmental safeguards. Do you know of any new developments in Washington about efforts to further REE development in the US? Thanks.