纽约时报：稀土矿是美国的，稀土矿物是中国的。

[枫林晓]

Everyone now wants Serra Verde’s rare earths, he said, but they are going to China.

“It’s really hard to not admire what they’ve managed to achieve,” Mr. Moraitis said of China. “And it’s very hard to compete against.”

描述了美国即便控制了矿山，却依然得不到成品稀土。