From Cowboy State Daily (Wyoming and the world), April 22:
The company developing a rare earth element mine in Ranchester added former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to its team. While in office, Manchin was a leading advocate for the mining industry.
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has joined the board of directors of Ramaco Resources, bringing an expertise that complements the company’s ambition to become “the first new rare earth mine in the country,” said Randall Atkins, Ramaco's chairman and CEO.
Along with metallurgical coal mining operations in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky, Ramaco has the Brook Mine in Wyoming along with a carbon business incubator in Sheridan County. It also is pursuing a huge rare earth deposit in Wyoming the company has estimated could be valued at more than $37 billion....
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Our last visit to Cowboy State Daily:
Bill Gates Goes To Wyoming Coal Country, Breaks Ground On A Nuke Plant, Plays Poker With The Locals
