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The town of Fifield near Parkes is about a six-hour drive west of Sydney, and at the last Census was home to about 130 people. Now, the town has found itself at the centre of a major strategic play by the United States government. The US Department of War has committed to make a conditional loan of US$400 million (about $566 million) to Sunrise Energy Metals, an Australian mining company hoping to deliver the world’s first supply of a key critical mineral outside of China. Scandium is listed as a critical mineral in both Australia and the US, signalling its…
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