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Proposed Nebraska Mine Has Sizeable Deposit of Rare Elements
By JOSH FUNK, AP Enterprise Author
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mining firm that wishes to extract a uncommon heat-resistant component from the bottom underneath southeast Nebraska says a brand new report exhibits the deposit it plans to mine holds a major quantity of different uncommon parts.
NioCorp Developments mentioned Thursday that the most recent evaluation exhibits the quantity of uncommon earth parts current the place it plans to construct the mine about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Omaha close to the city of Elk Creek is the second largest deposit in the USA.
The Centennial, Colorado-based firm estimates that there are 632.9 kilotons of uncommon earth parts there. These parts are wanted to make the highly effective magnets utilized in electrical autos and different high-tech merchandise.
However the firm remains to be engaged on analyzing the most recent information on the venture to find out if will probably be economically possible to provide these uncommon earth parts together with the niobium, scandium and titanium it plans to provide on the mine. Analysts have mentioned that financial evaluation will likely be key.
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And naturally earlier than NioCorp can produce something, the corporate nonetheless has to boost greater than $1 billion to cowl the price of constructing the mine. Since 2015, NioCorp has raised greater than $60 million to pay for the exploration and improvement of the positioning.
NioCorp CEO Mark Smith mentioned there was sturdy curiosity from traders within the venture. The corporate is making an attempt to develop a financing plan with the correct mix of debt and fairness earlier than it may transfer ahead.
“The financing effort continues full bore,” Smith mentioned.
The U.S. imports all of the niobium and scandium and many of the titanium and uncommon earths that NioCorp hopes to provide. There is just one American mine that produces uncommon earths now at a website in California. NioCorp says its deposit is second solely to that Mountain Cross mine that MP Supplies runs in California.
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Nebraska Football Adds Transfer Cornerback from USC
Matt Rhule may have picked up the boost his defense needs.
Ceyair Wright committed to Nebraska Football Friday. The 6-foot, 180-pound cornerback played at USC before entering the transfer portal, having left the team near the end of the 2023 season. Wright has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
As a redshirt freshman in 2022, Wright started 11 of the team’s 14 games at corner. He recorded 28 tackles, adding an interception and a pair of pass breakups.
Wright’s addition is a welcome one to the Blackshirts. Tommi Hill is expected to lock down one side but on the other, question marks remain. Transfer Blye Hill was injured during the Red-White Spring Game and will miss a portion of the season. Jeremiah Charles, coming off of a redshirt season, lacks extended experience, though he is one of the most athletic players on the team.
In 2021, Wright was rated as the No. 78 overall prospect in the country and No. 7 corner, from 247 Sports. Nebraska was among his finalists at the time, though he committed to USC before visiting Lincoln.
Away from the field, Wright appeared 2021 movie Space Jam: A New Legacy as one of the son’s of NBA star LeBron James.
Wright is the eighth transfer for NU this cycle. He joins Vincent Genatone (Montana), Micah Mazzccua (Florida), Stefon Thompson (Syracuse), Dante Dowdell (Oregon), Isaiah Neyor (Texas), Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest), and Blye Hill (Saint Francis).
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Immigration policy fought over by Biden and Trump in Atlanta debate • Nebraska Examiner
Immigration occupies center stage in the 2024 presidential campaign and also was a major focus during the first presidential debate Thursday night between President Joe Biden and the presumptive GOP nominee, Donald J. Trump.
Immigration is a top issue for voters and for Trump, while the Biden administration has struggled to deal with the largest number of migrant encounters at the southern border in 20 years.
Biden during the 90-minute debate at CNN in Atlanta defended his administration’s handling of immigration and blamed Trump for tanking a bipartisan U.S. Senate border security deal.
Biden also pointed to that deal as a reason he should be reelected, because the White House was able to forge the agreement in the first place.
“We worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement,” Biden said.
Immigration crackdown
Senate Republicans rejected the bipartisan border security deal earlier this year, siding with their House colleagues and Trump. The agreement would have significantly overhauled U.S. immigration law by creating a temporary procedure to shut down the border during active times and raising the bar for asylum claims.
Trump in the debate argued that Biden did not need legislation to enact policy changes at the southern border because “I didn’t have legislation, I said close the border.”
In early June, Biden made the most drastic crackdown on immigration of his administration, issuing an executive order that instituted a partial ban on asylum proceedings at the southern border.
Trump called that action “insignificant.”
The debate came the day after U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave a briefing from Tucson, Arizona, about a decline in migrant encounters following Biden’s executive order.
He said the Tucson sector has “seen a more than 45 percent drop in U.S. Border Patrol encounters since the president took action, and repatriations of encountered individuals in Tucson have increased by nearly 150 percent.”
“Across the entire southern border, Border Patrol encounters have dropped by over 40 percent,” Mayorkas said.
‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
Trump cited his prior policies that he felt were successful and criticized Biden for rolling them back, such as one that required migrants to remain in Mexico while they awaited their asylum cases.
Biden slammed Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy that separated parents from their children in efforts to deter unauthorized immigrants at the border.
“When he was president he was … separating babies from their mothers and putting them in cages,” Biden said.
And, without citing evidence, Trump blamed immigrants for crime, calling it “migrant crime.”
Overall violent crime in the country is down by 15%, according to recent FBI statistics, and researchers have found that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens.
Trump brought up the death of a Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley, and blamed Biden’s immigration policies.
“All he does is make our country unsafe,” Trump said.
In late February, Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, was reported missing by her roommate when she did not return home after a run on the campus of the University of Georgia at Athens.
Local police found her body and shortly afterward arrested a 26-year-old man from Venezuela for her murder — an immigrant previously arrested in Georgia on a shoplifting charge who entered the country without authorization in 2022, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. House Republicans in reaction passed the Laken Riley Act.
Mass deportations
Trump was asked by debate moderators how he would carry out mass deportations, but he did not go into detail.
He has repeatedly claimed he would carry out a mass deportation campaign of undocumented immigrants by utilizing local law enforcement, the National Guard and potentially the U.S. military. He’s done so on the campaign trail and during a lengthy interview with Time Magazine.
“We have to get a lot of these people out and we got to get them out fast because they’re destroying our country,” Trump said during the debate.
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