Subject: Re: First US rare Earth mine in 70 years
(Just kidding - but it would be obvious that if they've reached the point of groundbreaking today, they made the decision to open the mine quite some time ago. Turns out that it's been in process for about two years).

Very true! This one doesn't happen without some planning.
I think the rare earth find was them exploring on what had been a coal mine before...I need to double check that.