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Ranchester Celebrates Groundbreaking For First US Rare Earth Mine In Decades
Ramaco Inc. and Ramaco Rare Earth, LLC, are hosting a landmark ribbon cutting and groundbreaking ceremony on Friday to commemorate the opening of the Brook Mine Carbon Ore Rare Earth project. It will be the first new rare earth mine in the United States in more than 70 years and first new coal mine in Wyoming in over 50 years. This is happening in Ranchester, Wyoming, a small northeastern town about nine miles south of the Montana border. It's aptly named being a little ranch town known for its friendly community nestled in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. It's population hovers around 1,000 people. Ramaco is ... (full story)