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...US Critical Materials’ announcement claims a 9 per cent concentration of rare earth oxides at Sheep Creek in Montana, which was confirmed by analyses from an independent Canadian laboratory ActLabs....
...A self-declared oilman, he roughnecked on rigs to pay his way through university in Montana before becoming a petroleum engineer in Alaska — still considered the frontier of the American oil business....
...According to the Congressional Research Service, roughly half of the US refining capacity is there....
...It is stored at two terminals owned by KCBX on the banks of the Calumet River. A dust storm last autumn spurred the community to action....
...Neither practice was entirely new but refining the techniques and combining them transformed the commercial viability of shale gas....
...BNSF announced earlier this year it would boost its shipping capacity to haul 1m b/d out of the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, an area that covers the Bakken formation....
...In a country the size of Montana, Burberry has more than 190 stores, Coach has nearly 150, and Gucci and Ferragamo each have 80....
...Nearly 150 years later, parts of North Dakota around the Bakken Shale formation – a vast, oil-bearing geological formation in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Saskatchewan – are boom towns again....
...In Calumet, Michigan, the entire town has been designated a National Historic Park. On the east coast, its decently preserved late 19th-century buildings wouldn’t rate much notice....
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