Our dependence on imported minerals, particularly from adversaries, poses a grave threat to national security. And it will cause serious trouble for key sectors of our economy if something isn’t…
Category: Mining
America Must Lead on Seafloor Mineral Development
The United States has a rare opportunity to secure not only the security of its supply chains but also the future of its clean energy industry by responsibly advancing seafloor…
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
President Trump’s executive order calls for research into a potential “international benefit-sharing mechanism for seabed mineral resource extraction and development that occurs in areas beyond the national jurisdiction of any…
China’s Expanding Strategic Footprint in Libya: Energy, Infrastructure, and a New Gateway to Europe
Libya may appear a fragile and fractured state, but to Chinese planners, it represents a gateway—one with the potential to tie Africa, Europe, and Asia together under a new global…
Trump Administration Plans to Finance $120 Million Rare Earths Mining Project in Greenland
Meanwhile, Ford struggles with supply of rare earth magnets as geologists question if there are truly significant mineral deposits under the Arctic island.
Study: Mining Minerals to Support Renewable Energy is Wrecking the Environment
Who could have seen that coming…
Deep-sea mining next arena for U.S. – China global rivalry
Seabed mining is environmentally risky with the ever-present threat of a spill that can lead to significant liability. Further, creating domestic processing facilities will require an expedited permitting process and…
Trump Administration Expedites Approval for New Uranium Mine in Utah
The reopening of this mine aligns with Trump administration push to expedite the development of U.S. nuclear energy capacity.
Vice President J.D. Vance: The Optimal Choice for Critical Minerals Czar?
As the U.S. competes for essential tech metals, calls for establishing a Critical Minerals Czar (or special envoy or task force) are plentiful and palpable, and this should be a…
Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!
Relatively few Americans today have worked on farms or in mines, oilfields, refineries or factories. Few understand where their food, clothing, cell phones, cosmetics and other essential products actually come…
In Dealing With China, Trump May Have a Trick Up His Sleeve
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…
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…
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