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Elon Musk: “We actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S. send the…”

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It depends on, say, like, the gallium refining that you're saying. Yeah, yeah, there's a rare earth stuff and. Yeah, rare earths, which are, as you know, not rare. Like, We actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S. send the rock, we put it on a train and then put on a boat to China. that goes on another train and goes to the rare earth refineries in China, who then refine it, put it into a magnet, put it into a motor sub assembly, and then send it back to America. (1:33:33–1:33:44)

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