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...This US mining company has three major concessions in Arizona, Wyoming and Nevada, rich in rare earths such as allanite, neodymium, praseodymium and scandium, which are used in the clean tech and defence...
...Miranda Sinclair has also taken up paper work in the past two years....
...I visited the starkly beautiful ranchland on the Sierra Madre range above the city of Rawlins, where privately backed Power Company of Wyoming is building a huge new $8bn wind project to supply electricity...
...Bill Miller, who runs the Anschutz Corporation’s Power Company of Wyoming, is an oilman and rancher and Anschutz, his deep-pocketed boss, is no tree-hugger....
...David Sinclair, a Harvard geneticist and one of the biggest names in anti-ageing....
...“There will be a shakeout in the refining sector,” said John Auers, executive vice-president of Turner, Mason & Company, a consultancy....
...The company last month shut down its oil refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with plans to convert it to renewable diesel production, and it is adding a renewable diesel facility next to its oil refinery in Artesia...
...John Barrasso, a Republican senator from the oil and gas-rich state of Wyoming who chairs the Senate environment and public works committee, said the plan would harm the petroleum sector as small refineries...
...Refining has always been the poor relation of the oil industry. From Upton Sinclair’s Oil to Dallas, it is the drillers and the wildcatters who have been the heroic figures....
...The US refining industry has been enjoying a remarkable revival thanks to the shale boom, making shares in companies such as Marathon Petroleum and Tesoro the best-performing of any large energy companies...
...If I find a great person in Wyoming, I want to hire them. In fact, I’d employ someone anywhere in the world.”...
...A room at Amangani in Wyoming costs $900 in high season (it too was $700 in 2004). At the newly opened Amanyara in the Caribbean, a villa starts at $1,350 a night....
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