Yep! And we just struck graphite in the US, in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in New York. A little county (well, geographically large), 2800 square miles, 100,000 or so people, and we've struck the first graphite in the US...
...and we were just looking for zinc!
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/52342/202...