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US will remain hostage to Chinese critical minerals

Decades of underinvestment in the American engineering sector have left the country unable to break its dependence on China to secure raw materials, the chair of the Critical Minerals Institute warns.

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Jack Lifton, executive chairman of the Critical Minerals Institute and technical adviser to One World Lithium, which is developing direct lithium extraction technology for use in brine projects.