Recycling

One commenter writes:

... Here's one alternative: recycle ALL of the speakers and other electronic equipment found in stereos, cars, iPods, cell phones, computers, etc. as they will have varying levels of neodymium-based magnetic materials.

In fact, Margonelli ends her article by noting that, "To protect U.S. industry from supply shocks", Jack "I don't give a rat's ass about global warming" Lifton:

has called on the government to mandate the recycling of strategic minerals. A "bottle bill" for cars, long dismissed as an environmentalist's dream, is just one possible outcome.

Reserves

It turns out that the "95% of neodymium comes from China" point refers to the amount of neodymium being produced, not the amount of neodymium available for mining in reserves.  However, in fact, Margonelli, in the radio interview, clarifies that:

In terms of reserves, we have quite a bit.  We just don't mine it out.  Our [i.e. the U.S.A.'s] reserves are about half of what China's are.  And Australia has some.  I believe there's also some in Russia.  And what's happened though is that the cheapest producer has taken over, and that's China at the moment.  So we'll have to be prepared for a premium for more expensive minerals.

Earlier in the interview she refers to "fairly expensive neodymium, with a lot of U.S. environmental safeguards, on the assumption that people will be willing to kind of pay for like the Whole Foods, free-range, U.S. produced neodymium".

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