And especially, apart from a tiny slice labelled Canada and a small appendage being dug up for minerals called South America, the United States.

除去加拿大的一小片土地，再除去被称为南美洲的被看做矿场的弹丸之地之外，这个美洲剩下的就是美国了。

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A more distant worry voiced by some in Washington is that China could cut off the United States and other potential rivals of access to minerals used in military equipment.

华府的一些人士则表露了另一个远虑，因为军事装备要用到稀土，中国此举等于切断了美国和其他一些国家的来源。

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Section 1502 is based on the recognition that companies from around the world, including in the United States, buy minerals from the DRC and use them to produce high-tech components that go into computers, mobile phones and other devices.

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Research into seabed minerals has a long and slightly conspiratorial history, starting in the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union surveying the oceans ahead of possible future conflict.

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