Elemental Crisis | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes·2026-03-20 01:43
An hour southwest of Las Vegas, in the guts of the Mojave, sits the only active rare earth mine in the US, an unlikely battlefield in our trade war with China, which has a near monopoly over these strategic metals. >> When Beijing choked off supplies last year, James Lety and his company got the call. We got called into the Pentagon and it was clear that there was a directive from the president to solve this problem as quickly as possible. ...