Over half of this expanded global demand was met by a single mine, Mountain Pass, in the deserts of southeast California.
During the winter months, the Albula mountain pass closes to car traffic and the road gets taken over by schussing wooden toboggans.
Soon after the Moscow meeting, a large convoy of Yugoslav troops and armour moved to secure a mountain pass south of Pristina, Kosovo's capital.
They were found dead Saturday after being buried in snow on a high mountain pass in Colorado's White River National Forest, officials from the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office said.
The wild and rugged park, 120km west of San Salvador near the Guatemalan border, is named after a mountain pass that has claimed the life of many a coffee-farmer and mule.
So it is perhaps no surprise that one of best performing IPOs of 2010 was Molycorp ( NYSE: MCP), the company that is resuscitating the once dominant Mountain Pass, CA, rare earth mines.
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The Gap a glorious mountain pass with crystal-clear streams, rugged peaks and wildflowers is best explored by walking, cycling, or, most atmospherically, jaunting car (horse and cart) with entertaining commentary from a jarvey (driver).
Due to this almost-complete dependence on foreign sources, Molycorp is now looking to reopen its Mountain Pass mine in California and there is growing pressure on Congress to authorize the much-needed stockpiling of strategic minerals.
At 11am on 13 July 1375, dignitaries and eminent farmers from both valleys met atop the 6, 500ft Col de la Pierre St-Martin mountain pass, laid their hands together on the boundary stone and declared their peaceful intent.
The Mountain Pass mine, which had been bought in 1977 by Unocal, the oil company, began running into all kinds of regulatory problems concerning waste disposal, just as it was losing market share to cheaper Chinese competitors.
From the 1960s until the 1980s, the Mountain Pass mine in California made the US the world leader in rare earth production, but it was later closed, largely due to competition with the elements imported from China.
The tiny town of Mountain Pass, Calif.
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Resource Capital has not realized a penny from its investment in Molycorp, which aims to produce rare earth minerals (used in things like electric cars, wind turbines and iPods) at a previously shuttered mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Now it's time to finish the job and balance the budget, so that we don't pass a mountain of debt onto our children and we free up more funds to be invested in our economy.
That's the America we believe in, an America where we don't pass on a mountain of debt to the next generation.
Heavy snow fell in the Cascade Mountains and the avalanches hit near Snoqualmie Pass, one on Granite Mountain and the other on Red Mountain near the Alpental ski area, CNN affiliate KOMO said.
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Discover the astonishing variety of Himalayan wildflowers, quaint village hamlets, pristine forests, yak herder camps and mountain vistas, culminating at the Selela Pass , the only location in Bhutan where the wild red poppy is found.
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
The Sepulveda Pass is one of the major mountain passes within the City of Los Angeles, connecting the San Fernando Valley with the west side of the city through the Santa Monica Mountains.
As we venture down the extraordinary Icefields Parkway in vans with our super-active, super-attentive guides, Dani Houston, Felicia Perricelli and Andrea McLeod, (pluck is their natural personality) the huge cascading walls of rock we pass look to have the remains of ancient mountain top cities.
Workers removed fallen rocks and repaired a damaged mountain road in Nantou, allowing more than 100 stranded tourists to pass.
Copper Mountain started the price war three years ago by offering a season pass allowing four family members to ski for close to the price of one.
Aim high over the Hai Van Pass, ignoring the tedious tunnel that has been conveniently burrowed through the mountain.
Glenn Alps connects to Powerline Pass with a trail through a spectacular alpine valley, beloved by hikers and mountain bikers.
Hikers pass through a variety of landscapes, through lava fields, across black obsidian ridges and over mountain-tops.
In "Simplon Pass: At the Top" (1909-11), figures resting in a mountain field meld into the meadow and the distant mountains.
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