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News24 Business | INSIGHT-Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals
The only US cobalt mine sits fallow in the northern Idaho woods, a mothballed hunk of steel and dirt that is too expensive for its owner to operate because Chinese rivals have flooded global markets with cheap supplies of the bluish metal used in electric …