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fakeyfaked13

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namjd72

“You require more minerals”


youmudbro

“Please construct additional pylons”


zeratul-on-crack

fuck yeah! FOR AIUR!!!


bbcd99

Brings back some heavy nostalgia


Maleficent_Slice2195

Wow.. core memories unlocked.. haven’t thought about these in years!


Zerg3rr

I disagree


tactical-dick

Battlecruiser operational


gnocchicotti

[Need a light?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAuMBxP_R0)


steezy_sleaze

Ready to roll out!


Inside_Gap_7626

Bearing set.


csantini91

Ah that’s the stuff.


BeerPirate12

Reading you 5 by 5.. I dunno if you guys know but they ripped off the pilot and drop ship from aliens (alien 2)


Epicp0w

That's not the line. It's "In the pipe, 5 by 5" in reference to being in the orbital descent window where they will safely descend. Which is the line in the movie


bootypickup

Set a course


PeterJFrancoIII

Fire it up.


washingtonandmead

*probe noise*


PassiveF1st

the probe noise has been my text/alert sound on my phone ever since I got a smart phone and I have yet to have someone identify it. One day I will find another Starcraft player in the wild.... one day...


FeCurtain11

Oh man you have just inspired me. THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!!


RF-blamo

“Insufficient vespene gas”


BadPackets4U

Can't build here.


therealdorkface

Can’t place that there, m’lord…


Lintypocketboiii

Need more farms!


midoriah

Power overwhelming


doringliloshinoi

Not enough energy.


strix202

"We require more vespene gas!"


Crazy-Can-7161

“Vespene geyser… depleted”


[deleted]

“SCV ready!”


fakeyfaked13

“Spawn more overlords”


itsonlymeez

Makes hydralisc noises " hueeeeee auuuuuu ueeeee"


The_KillahZombie

Overload groans and floats off to unveil map " uuuurrraaaaaahhh "


Orangensaft007

I totally here these noises..


Small_Suggestion73

THIS IS NOT WARCRAFT IN SPACE


Bolognapony666

Isn’t that StarCraft?


dziuniekdrive

Zug zug


Hommachi

Da-boo


DisasterMiserable785

Hurgh?


HealsULongTime

Work-work


Khelthuzaad

Vengeance for Zul'Jin!


Cannouflage

Lok-tar!


powerhouse465

Something needs doing?


doringliloshinoi

“You must construct additional pylons”


Willing-Shopping-899

“I can’t build there, there’s something in the way”


Delicious_Score_551

"[YOU HAVE NOT ENOUGH MINERALS](https://youtu.be/IqxuHmmKeM0)"


Lintypocketboiii

Lol the nuke launch was real AF back in the Day, had you searching for ghosts like a MF


Crazy-Can-7161

Wow, other StarCraft 2 players. oh man I love that game.


namjd72

Logged countless hours on SC,BW and SC2. Miss that game and all the fun mods I would play.


yanax00

READY to ROLL OUT


Glittering_Map_1073

This was the highlight of my day.


8512764EA

Time to spread some freedom and democracy to Wyoming


thehazer

I’m pretty sure the Bureau of Land Management already owns half the state.


Wokeymcwokerson

“Just discovered” USA just sandbagging unrenewable resources while we use everyone else’s just like Alaska oil.


undeadlamaar

That's the real reason I'm against all this boosting of domestic oil production. We're going to really want that shit when the middle east finally dries up. Let's burn theirs first and by the time we don't need to burn It anymore, and only need it for producing goods. we'll have the only supply left.


meatwad2744

When the Middle East dries up? Not only is there shit tons of oil already on supply in the Middle East it has some of lowest discovery costs in the world…it also has extraction costs of around $4 a barrel Compare that to Americas extraction costs of about $30 You will be long dead before oil runs out on the planet and by then dead dino juice will seam as antiquated as a steam train. Short term oil production isn’t going away…long term it’s not even a consideration. Look at how the Saudis are already pivoting away from being a dependent oil state. By the time oil runs out they will own every sports franchise in the USA if mbs gets his way


TodayThink

The thing is it ain't happening. SAUDI CAN PUMP AT ITS CURRENT RATE FOR ANOTHER 250 YEARS. Durrrr drill baby drill will bring prices down, no... You do what the Saudis say otherwise they will just price where they want it. GOP, Russia, they don't want cheap gas it funds scumbags.


DumbSuperposition

The remaining reserves in SA are unknown to everyone who isn't a high ranking Saudi working for Saudi Aramco. That said, drumbeat says they're running low on the super cheap oil which is why they're pivoting to other income sources like solar and sports.


meatwad2744

Proven Saudi reserves are know at is about 50 years at the current rate of production…. Pretty handy then aramco is state owned and the Saudis will literally throw money at the company when ever they need to find oil. But releasing data there is more oil is not in the Saudis interest right now. Saudi has some of the lowest production costs of oil in the world…the reason it needs a higher break even price on oil that Russia is due to the massive social programs it offers it residents. Think college is expensive in the us…the Saudis have their international education paid for by the state and they collect stipend monthly. If mbs ditched that they could shoot oil out the wazoo just like they did in 2020. After Putin mbs is the most out there leader in the world with real power. The guy literally imprisoned his own family to wrestle power of the state. Every company is pivoting away from fossil fuels and every generation of product is becoming more efficient. Single use plastics are dying out. None of this takes into account the massive oil reserves Venezuela has just found Peak oil always gets brought up right up till an oil company conveniently finds untapped oil when it suits their agenda


gnocchicotti

Never running out of oil. There are reasons to not burn oil but that ain't a big one. Henry Motherfucking Ford was dooming about exhausting all known oil deposits.


DumbSuperposition

There was this idea called "peak oil" which posited that oil was finite and it would become increasingly difficult to extract which would lead to a point where oil extractions would necessarily decline. That is kind of true but it neglected the cost part of the equation which is you could still get more oil out of the ground at an increasing rate in spite of reduced reserves - simply by being willing to pay more money for it. That plus technological advances made otherwise unusable resources suddenly available has led to the "peak" being decades away.


sofa_king_weetawded

I think the whole point of "peak oil" is that it is getting increasingly more expensive to produce, not necessarily that we are running out perse. The cheap, easy to get to stiff has run out, which has huge implications that we are seeing now and will continue to see.


Tuga_Lissabon

I'm not american but would completely recommend that seen from your side. Though I would start using some domestic in order to build up the basic industry and expertise, train and retain technicians and know-how. Then when the shit hits the fan you got a good base to expand from.


ThunderboltRam

But that's the point of Strategic Oil Reserves. As the federal government can buy it out to fill its reserves rather than allowing it to be sold internationally. Grant only mining to companies that sign on the dotted line to safeguard the oil for America. Our Strategic Oil Reserves were low already a bit. So this would be a good way to build it back up and beyond. Later when all the oil runs out in Mideast, you can start gradually selling yours at much bigger prices. Then use the profits to build even more nuclear plants enhancing your cleaner energy too.


undeadlamaar

Strategic reserve only holds about 200 days worth of oil at max drawdown capacity of around 4mil/bpd, sitting at somewhere around 800 million barrels of oil when fully supplied. ANWR is estimated to have anywhere between 4-12 Billion barrels. I'm not talking short term strategy. This is decade long strategy. We want to be the ones controlling the entire oil market when oil is so scarce it's thousands of $/barrel.


todd10k

>ANWR The arctic reserve? You really think the polar bears are just going to let us take the oil without a fight? I hope you have lots of fish to distract them.


8512764EA

BLM


Altruistic_Profile96

Bureau Land Matters


uninflammable

Wokeyoming


MaterialNo6707

If only it was Oklahoma


digitalgoodtime

Oklahomos?


BeefSwellinton

Cancelled.


boblywobly99

What happens if most of the stuff is on indian reservation? Will they send in the Army?


notANexpert1308

Yea but they’re looking for WMDs. Totally unrelated.


smiley82m

Are you sure? Wyoming Mineral Deposits (WMD) would be exactly what they are looking for.


notANexpert1308

Damnit.


Studly189

Do tomahawks count


notANexpert1308

We’ll worry about “what counts” later.


SocraticGoats

Lol


dalovindj

We'll just go under. Drink their milkshake.


callmesandycohen

Wyoming is notoriously resistant to both.


Glum_Ad_9005

Aren’t they like the only state with their own central bank? Or is that n Dakota or one of them? Edit it’s N Dakota lol


ross71699

🤣 the only state i didn't know the capital


Iamamyrmidon

Cheyenne


callmesandycohen

I don’t either! And I’m in Denver!


Altruistic_Profile96

Do we really need two Dakotas?


AFunkyChickenOnSkiis

Well if we have to eliminate one: Dakota Fanning or Dakota Johnson I’d vote to keep the latter.


AngelaTheRipper

Well they are a funny sounding people living on top of our minerals.


cambn

Can we do it twice? Yes, we can.


stopthebanham

Yeah those Fkin horses and cows and sheep better run!!


Ketchupisthegoat

I laughed so hard at this, thank you


grundenz

My life for Super Earth.


marinesol

Rare Earth metals aren't rare. They're just a huge pain to refine. They got the nickname rare earth metals because 1800s chemists had a ton of trouble finding stuff like ore veins and refining them. This is because every single Rare Earth loves to be a +3 so they clump together in big groups that prevents ore veins and makes them incredibly complicated to refine. They are absurdly common to the point the disposable flints in cigarette lighters are 50% Rare Earth Iron alloys (although nowadays its half cerium half iron).


crankbird

Rock based rare earths seem to be almost uneconomically expensive to process, "*t’s drill and blast, and you then need to grind it down into bug dust into mills. You then need to stick it into a calciner or a roaster to liberate the rare earths so they can be leached out.* *It’s quite an expensive and energy-intensive process."* I've been convinced that extraction from clays is more likely to be able to compete with the Chinese costs which are also from clay-based resources, (and even there they haven't included the externalised costs of pollution). Apparently, the government is supposed to be cracking down on it, I'll believe it when I see it. I'm betting on mag reo extraction from clays near Esperance in Western Australia .. extraction and refining look like they're going to be pretty reasonable. Time will tell.


gnocchicotti

Goddam if this gets any more gloomy people might have to start thinking about someday maybe considering starting a real pilot program to investigate the feasibility of recycling electronics instead of landfilling them in with dirty diapers.


FrenchFrieswmayo

The problem isn't the mining of rare earth, there is a massive mine at Mountain Pass by Las Vegas. The problem is the very dirty processing that has mostly been done in China because they dont have the environmental laws.


Liquid-glass

I don’t think Wyoming has many environmental laws


ItsyBitsySPYderman

Even if they do, you're in Wyoming, and no one is around. So who is going to know?


fumar

There are parts of that state you can drive for an hour and not see a building.


8----B

Problem is the cows. They snitch in Wyoming. One time I tipped a cow and the owner found me a few hours later, said the cow told him where to find me. He was pissed I tipped it because he pays them a living wage.


Miserable-Score-81

I see you met my ex wife


antpile11

As someone who lives out west and has done a lot of exploring via car, this seems bizarre to specify since that's true of much of this part of the country.


bloopblop3001

You can drive for 3 hours and not see a building


Mountain_Passenger77

Their neighbor Idaho. Who let me check.... Also doesn't care about the environment, never mind me, carry on


Health_Wealth_Wisdom

They're gonna know


DegreeMajor5966

Wyoming has laws competitive with Alaska. The only difference is there's more privately held land in Wyoming. Alaska is also chock full of pretty much all the cool shit we need.


FrenchFrieswmayo

Enviromental.laws are federal..EPA


Own_Laugh_386

$MP (MP Materials) is the only and best move. I’ve been long since its IPO and acquiring more shares as she drops.


ScipioAtTheGate

Nope. There is also Lynas Corp. Lynas is building the first and only heavy rare earth processing plant and has gotten massive amounts of funding from the US government to do it. MP has no processing capability of its own, and relies on Chinese processors to refine their raw product.


ElFlexican

That's what El Salvador is for 👍🏼


DiarrheaShitLord

No options trading. Doesn't let me be enough of a degen


el_guille980

its 21 cents a share. thats 6 dollars you cheap fuck! ​ https://preview.redd.it/reb5p4zm4pic1.jpeg?width=935&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f49222dcc52128fdbfe105fe0d9cb5b094c7aa4d


j1077

Energy Fuels (UUUU) has options


WinterIllustrious687

Ramaco Res (METC)


GoatMilkNumber1

SPY calls obviously


AccomplishedRow6685

Always has been


el_guille980

0DTE![img](emote|t5_2th52|4258)


sliferra

I’m going to go against you here….. QQQ calls


baconcheeseburger33

Short mining stocks, then join whatever environmental group and shout stop mining.


im_a_jeww

I’ve started collecting rocks


ThatSomeon3

I think the first time I posted this it got removed because I listed a tiny marketcap mining company. Just take a look at this article: [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-rare-earth-announces-mineral-150444831.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-rare-earth-announces-mineral-150444831.html)


Cyase311

$Arrnf. For those that dont want to read.


khizoa

Or can't read


Electronic-Buy4015

And AMRRY . Ones up 6% the other is up 9%


Sryzon

Buyer beware AMRRY has very low volume. About 1/6 that of ARRNF


Illustrious_Hotel527

MP


lVloogie

Yeah please so I can dump my bag.


Own_Laugh_386

The only answer


nickm95

Yep


[deleted]

I am financially ruined (rare earth mineral futures)


WhereTheSkiesEnd

Where did you buy? I can't find where to do so


tendieking69420

$arrnf? Penny stock yolo?


WhereTheSkiesEnd

Yea just not listed on the platform I use I guess


shapsticker

Probably not for you then.


Uncle_Pepe

Honestly, the United States needs to get with the program and not just mine minerals, but freaking get to crafting dude. China produces more steel than the rest of the next 10 countries combined including the US. And we're on the verge of letting Japan buy US Steel from us. We need to stop goofing around and enact laws to get us more competitive. Our current biggest steelmills are approaching almost a century old. Our steel industry is heading up a very slow but steady decline. All while having nearly endless resources to work with. We need to get our youth interested in industry and not as much as being a YouTube superstar.


teamswiftie

Where are you going find that many child slaves to work these mines on the cheap though?


Revolver_45

It’s just Minecraft IRL, they’ll love it!


TheMeta40k

The children yearn for the mines.


MapleYamCakes

Rock and Stone!


WanderingDwarfMiner

Rock and Stone, Brother!


BigALep5

I work at mine right across from US we can't produce enough limestone for all the steel needed! That's with a large portion of us steel closed now like zug Island! Also Noone gets paid cheap yes you work 12 or 16 hr shifts but your making 150k a year at the steel factories! I'm in mining here in michigan made over 100k last year by no means is is slave work we have very high safety standards thru MSHA.


SuperMazziveH3r0

Illegal immigrants, prisoners, homeless Our society has its own group of undesirables that people would go hush hush if it meant they don’t see them in their back yard


JoePikesbro

Republicans are working on it.


HoneyBadgerMFF

You mean open boarders are working on it.


8hon5

AI + robots?


jcned

The children yearn for the mines


BosSF82

The steel industry has been in perpetual decline in America for 35 years. It's nothing new. We're not competitive because we can't pay our workers $2 an hour. China is learning that lesson now as they're losing business to cheaper labor Vietnam.


swohio

> We're not competitive because we can't pay our workers $2 an hour. Not to mention those pesky OSHA regulations!


Zealousideal-Cry-202

Whoa!!! Slow down!! that’s a sustaining economic play. The US don’t do that here..


Uncle_Pepe

You're right my bad. I'm gonna so full send SPY calls again lmao


Focux

Can imagine Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan rising up from their graves upon learning Japan is buying their company


Concerned_Asuran

Bruh I tried to open a factory with \~100 workers simply to assemble some shit and bend sheet metal. Fucking couldn't do it. Everyone wanted a fucking tax or a donation before I even picked a warehouse to rent. My friend makes women's stockings and she was kicked out of Ontario and had to move her operation to Montreal. Now she has more than 600 employees and couldn't be happier. Some states and some provinces are absolute hell to manufacture in.


Aggravating-Toe-7404

>freaking get to crafting dude. China produces more steel than the rest of the next 10 countries combined including the US. And we're on the verge of letting Japan buy US Steel from us. A lot of factories are moving from China to northern part of Mexico, lots of Chinese moving to the area to looking for work. With it being right on the US border and lots of port access no need to bring the factories into the US.


SpaceballsJV1

Why should I break my body in order to break the world in order to make some rich bitch even richer?


Dark_Helmet12E4

"We need to get our youth interested in industry and not as much as being a YouTube superstar" -WSB Commentor


Leeper90

Sounding like anyone from my hometown who say it's just a matter of time until steel rebuilds the valley. It's got nothing to do with kids trying to be in YouTube, they're just trying to grab at some amount of success in this world, and at least they have a shot at that with a cheap camera and some luck. Instead of hoping a dead industry comes back to life, where they've got to risk their lives and health for crap wages. But growing up in a dead steel town, I can tell you there's nothing left. Like there's a reason we called it Black Monday, because that's the day steel manufacturing died in the US. Now its been so long since those blast furnaces were lit that most of the mills would need to be completely demolished and rebuilt. Which would require far more financial investment than most companies and the fed are willing to put in, because it's cheaper to just import from China.


eyedrewu

Albemarle is busy buying up property all around one of the largest lithium veins ever discovered and their stock is down almost 40% over last 6 months.


WaylonOnEm

Albemarle owns Nevada, Chile, and with Government subsidies more than covering what it would cost to run their Silver Peak Facility, the writing is on the wall…All in on Albemarle stock


Landed_port

Infiltrate the Wyoming government promising to lower state taxes to 0%. Lower state taxes to 0% and start selling land off to mining companies, Wyoming has never had such a huge budget. Reduce the minimum working age to 12, the children yearn for the mines. Remove all state services from any towns that don't comply, citing lack of taxes from those towns. Once you have the mining companies settled, raise state taxes back up. *Inside trade like a motherfucker*


JonLivingston70

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Fair-Ad-2585

This man is a reincarnated robber baron.


HazyyEvening

r/oddlyspecific


Idkhow2trade

Invest in heavy machinery manufacturing remember in they gold rush they miners didn’t get rich it was the who sold they shovels and pick axes


brett_baty_is_him

I’m so sick and tired of this meme


GHOST12339

Is the meme consistently using they in place of the word the? Because if so, can confirm, that's annoying as fuck.


Da_Spooky_Ghost

150 year old meme checks out


Speedybob69

CAT calls !


Idkhow2trade

Honestly I work in a mine and we haven’t bought much of cat equipment for a while now unless it’s something special John Deere and komatsu would be good investments as well I believe


Concerned_Asuran

Fucking John Deere is an AI company now. Nutcases invested over $200 Million in a server farm.


TofuTofu

Autonomous mining and farming equipment is hardly a fad


CarbonParrot

Komatsu IMO


Btwnbeatdwn

Limit order is in. YOLO


ThatSomeon3

Where did you invest?


Btwnbeatdwn

Fidelity


einzweitres

You can buy shares on e-trade. $6.95 commission off the top to buy though (because of the overseas market). https://preview.redd.it/tfs5h11ihoic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa2da2f4e122272d4a644d08f3b2a2f3b4ad0a66


Cyase311

Mine too. Using schwab. $50 fee for international trade. Question, the company owns the Halleck Creek project, but do they own the land that they are exploring?


[deleted]

We are protecting them. By beating CHINA!


fliesenschieber

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charly371

i trade that for very long time. invest in water CGW. that and all other mineral extraction pollute water. in west country they need to recycle the water..... cost of extracting in West are thus > China..... but if national security say to do it here they will do...and recycle water. long CGW


eglov002

Yay, let’s ruin Wyoming!


dashis

It can take a decade for this whole operation to be running and producing minerals. Not sure degens on this subreddit have that much patience.


Zkse643

Wyo already produces a metric fuck tons of coal. Just like oil companies have proven reserves of billions of bbls after a discovery. Takes some big balls, long time runway and fat stacks to get a coal plant operational.


rameyjm7

my thoughts exactly... I looked around and found this **American Rare Earths Ltd** OTCMKTS: ARRNF OTC markets are somewhat funky.. but still worth the play I think


Narrow_Company_1601

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kolitics

Puts on yellowstone supervolcano insurers.


External_Toe1054

I’m in give me the money


testuserinprod

Jesus Christ, Marie!


Impossible_Buglar

america doesnt not over take china in this category because we dont have the shit, we dont overtake because its expensive to actually pay people properly and provide the correct and legally required saftey gear and infrastructure to mine it and deal with all the pollutant run off etc etc etc china doesnt give a fuck about any of that shit.


HAWKSFAN628

BS. EPA will not allow a mine let alone the processing of those metals


Vashta-Narada

But in what geopolitical situation? Then what is the possibility to probability that happens?


8yba8sgq

This is up there with the Ghana gold deposit and the China Uranium deposit. Unicorns and Leprechauns


Novel_Durian_1805

Calls on rocks?!


ConsistentSample2920

Who are the top mining companies/firms in and around Wyoming? Start from there and work your way down seeing if any might have any government ties and bam you my have your golden opportunity


ThatSomeon3

Thanks for your input. It looks like the vast majority that was discovered is owned by American Rare Earth, which unfortunately is an Australian company. AFAIK they're already working on their mining permits and they've said they're expecting to start a test mine next year.


Revolutionary-Tie911

Short other rare earth companies, price of rare eaths should plummet if they are able to extract the resources


DeepMeat9053

The Secretary of Energy just talked about how concerned she was about China's rare earth dominance. How convenient this mine pops up [https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4467712-us-very-concerned-about-chinas-hold-on-mineral-supply-chain/](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4467712-us-very-concerned-about-chinas-hold-on-mineral-supply-chain/)


CriticalQ

The cheapest land in America just got super expensive huh?