Trump is deliberately shrinking the U.S. market for wind turbines and for the predominately Chinese-supplied raw materials that go into them. The goal is to play to America’s strengths, which…
Category: Mining
Mine, Baby, Mine!
President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already produces more oil and gas than any other nation, and he intends to…
Will 47 revive the U.S. mining industry?
“While the Biden Administration’s mineral policy ‘heavily features international cooperation’,” Wischer says Trump will likely “significantly prioritize” building more mines, processing facilities, and refineries in the U.S.
Leveraging the Defense Production Act to Stockpile Minerals
The Trump Administration could use any of the Defense Production Act’s $1 billion in unobligated funds for stockpiling minerals. Depending on the final defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2025, the incoming…
Permitting Reform: A Strategic Imperative for U.S. National Security and Global Competitiveness
For the incoming administration, prioritizing permitting reform for both transmission and domestic critical mineral development is essential for safeguarding America’s future. Energy infrastructure reform transcends reducing bureaucratic delays; it is…
El Salvador Now Looking to Mine $3 Trillion in Gold and Other Critical Minerals
According to preliminary studies cited by the president, El Salvador’s gold reserves could be worth an astounding three trillion dollars – representing over 8,800% of the country’s current GDP. Bukele…
China Begins Ban of Rare Earth Minerals to the US
The escalating tit-for-tat economic measures by Washington and Beijing come weeks before the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump for his second term. During his first term, Trump launched a…
California “purifies” its little air bubble at the expense of its residents.
It is appalling that wealthy California with its “green mandates” continues to burden its residents with humongous costs to transition to just electricity, and support unethical, immoral, and hypocritical actions…
Renewable Transition Raw Materials Challenge
Comparing the metals needed to the metals available leads to the inescapable conclusion that the dreams of replacing fossil fuels will be unable to overcome reality.
Mining Industry Needs $2.1 Trillion Dollars in New Investment to Meet Net-Zero Demand for Raw Materials
Despite the growth in metals supply over the last decade, BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) annual Transition Metals Outlook finds that there are still not enough raw materials to meet growing demand. This…
McKinsey Report: Large Net Zero Mineral Supply Shortfall
“… current mineral supply meets between 10 and 35% of projected 2050 requirements …”
China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape
The uncertainty from permitting and litigation compounds the challenge of reaching production in what’s often a volatile and uncertain market environment for these commodities,
Mining the planet for renewable energy
Reliable energy, human rights, land impacts, air and water pollution, lost wildlife get ignored
Assessing America’s vulnerability to a Chinese graphite embargo
The potential damage from a Chinese monopoly graphite embargo is quite large. Vulnerability assessment is clearly called for.
The Inconvenient Truth About Copper: Implications for U.S. Electrification Goals
The discourse around the frenetic, ill-conceived, and ideological fantasy of “climate policy” must evolve to incorporate these hard truths, ensuring that the path to so-called sustainability is both feasible and…
Steve Milloy on Biden’s Climate Agenda on FOX Business
Of course, it’s totally cynical. I mean, you know, Joe Biden is not doing this because he’s stupid or the people behind him are stupid. Half this country is for…
Argentinian Reform: Subsoil Privatization (Javier Milei, meet Guillermo Yeatts)
The case of Guillermo Yeatts for subsoil privatization should eclipse “climate change” as the number one policy initiative of the 21st century.
China Restricts Exports of Graphite, Key Mineral Used for Making EV Batteries
More bad news for the EV rollout!
US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions
the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of…
Carnage of Child Labor and Ecological Destruction “Elsewhere” acceptable to Wealthy Countries
The silence is deafening from billionaires like Bill Gates, John Kerry, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and President Biden.
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