Talk:African Union Free State Council/@comment-5106274-20120514205725/@comment-5106274-20120514211441

OK, I have a thought for you, it's supposed that almost all of the crustal REE are from Meteor strikes. This being the case you could have the African REE resources be the result of an accident during the 21st century when a robotic asteroid mining enterprise was trying to return a near earth asteroid for mining and caused it to crash into the Saharah doing minimal damage. This could also have lead to a worldwide ban on any robotic relocation of asteroids or totally automated asteroid mining enterprises.