{"id":158033,"date":"2026-09-27T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158033"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:00:21","slug":"how-kenyas-sacred-mrima-hill-became-new-front-in-us-china-minerals-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158033","title":{"rendered":"How Kenya\u2019s sacred Mrima Hill became new front in US-China minerals rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMrima Hill, a sacred site about 65km (40 miles) southwest of Mombasa on Kenya\u2019s Indian Ocean coast, is emerging as a new front in the US-China rivalry for critical minerals.<br \/>\nUS-led and Chinese bidders are competing for rights to develop the site, which is rich in rare earths and niobium, a metal used to make steel stronger and lighter.<br \/>\nAmerican officials have offered to support Kenya\u2019s development of its domestic critical minerals processing industry as Washington seeks to challenge Beijing\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3368915\/how-kenyas-sacred-mrima-hill-became-new-front-us-china-minerals-rivalry?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMrima Hill, a sacred site about 65km (40 miles) southwest of Mombasa on Kenya\u2019s Indian Ocean coast, is emerging as a new front in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}