The fact is that the US has expansive precious metal reserves, and the mining companies are all foreign owned.
True, a good portion of the big ones are Canadian. However, most are also publicly traded companies, so they are no more "foreign owned" than most US based publicly traded companies.
18 posted on 03/30/2005 10:20:56 PM PST by tortoise
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