Wall Street Bets Three Hundred Million On Stolen Dirt #
Don Swartz stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, watching his company’s valuation hit $368 million in a single morning. This is the debut of Rare Earths Americas, a firm built on stripping ionic clay from Brazil and monazite sands from the woods of Georgia. Wall Street has decided that the dirt beneath our feet is the new digital gold, provided it can be ground into magnets for the tech elite. CEO Don Swartz told…