The Dirty Truth About Rare Earth Minerals | Tom Albanese #484 (opens in new tab)

Most people don’t spend much time thinking about copper\. Or cobalt\. Or manganese\. Or the bizarre golf-ball-sized rocks sitting 24,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean that might determine whether America wins or loses the next industrial revolution\. But then again, most people haven’t spent an evening drinking bourbon in a snowstorm with Tom Albanese\. Tom spent the last 50 years digging valuable things out of the earth\. He’s run one of the biggest mining companies on the planet, worked in...