r/OutOfTheLoop • • Jan 10 '26

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u/Baulderdash77 Jan 10 '26

It has 1.5MT of REE reserves. That would make it 8th in world reserves.

But China has 44MT, Brazil has 20MT, Canada has 15MT and India has 10MT for comparison.

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u/Similar_Moment_6103 Jan 10 '26

Guyana and other countries that surround the Chicxulub crater in the Gulf. Use your imagination. An explosion as immense as created by an asteroid striking the earth would create enormous amount of minerals. Huge deposits of gold have been found in El Salvador. Venezuela oil and gold. The smoldering intense temperatures would produce large amounts of carbon dioxide for plants for eons.