Billion Dollar Heavy Rare Earth Mine

To close the deal, McKenzie felt he had to get to know the Dotsons.

 “I was willing to go down a turkey trail and not really know where it would end,” he says. “Maybe it was the situation. I did have the time to do it, but I don’t know how many people would have.”
 
Alaska’s Billion Dollar Mountain --- How Jim McKenzie acquired the mining rights to a mountain of rare earths worth billions. "I didn’t think I’d get into the minerals business. It looks like I orchestrated this brilliant move, right? But it’s just inadvertent luck”