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One company wants to make Tennessee the ‘Saudi Arabia of titanium’

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The stretch of Tennessee between Nashville and the Mississippi River has never been known for its natural resources.

“We don’t have any natural resources like Texas and Pennsylvania and Ohio and West Virginia,” says John Stevens, a state senator whose district includes Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Obion and Weakley counties. “We just haven’t had any of that. Even our ground’s not very good for farming. It’s not like Iowa. The only thing West Tennessee has really ever had is … really good water.”

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