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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Thu, 19 June 2025, 16:02:14
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Basically, mining + smelting are both 20 year investments. You go to Rich guy, hey rich guy, give us Literal 100millions - $Billions for a Mine or a Smelter. In 20 years, you'll start getting some of your money back. Oh, and expect delays.
The main hindrance to the business process is Paperwork upon paperwork, then a complex machine that's got alot of moving parts that REQUIRE a multi-continent world-supply-chain TO-Build (smelters/mines)..
The most optimistic business policy, if theoretically ALL paperwork, safety, feasibility, environmental, ALL CHECKS REMOVED, Blast-Baby-Drill, Just do it, Poison the ground water, We'd still be facing a 10 year investment.
There is absolutely NO-appetite in the money market for this type of investment, highly risky. They want 15% beginning year 3, 6 tops.
So BANK guys don't want to do anything "Hard."
Now comes the Trad w,har,
As of NOW, we don't have the mines, AND, we don't have the smelters, we're AT LEAST 20 years away from having either. Whereas China controls 50-60% of mining 80-90% of processing...
What ammo exactly, are we fighting with. We've gone on a Trad w,hr without even putting pants on.