Some related things:
From Interior:
From Fox News:
WQe closed our last lead refinery about a year ago. We don’t even have secure lead supplies.
I find it astounding that such rudimentary national security issues such as this and our vulnerability to EMP attack have been ignored for so long.
Let’s start with uranium and determine if any traitors sold American mining companies to Russia via Canada.
Awesome move. This is how the government needs to be run. Trump knows how to pick them. Compare and contrast to the clown show Obama surrounded himself with.
MAGA!!!
I’ll bet a lot of this data already exists in the private sector. Drawing up the list and doing the survey is important.
Now who on earth would ever imagine, in their wildest dreams, that a sec’y of the interior generally thought to be in charge of natural resources oversight would ever in a million years survey what minerals we have/need/are short of? That would be like people in charge of security paying attention to security. Or if someone in charge of labor examined the overall conditions for labor. Completely ridiculous. /s
Awesome! I’m so glad we’re doing this and preparing for EMP attacks. Decades overdue!
Molycorp, our only rare earth mine, went bankrupt and was bought for only twenty million by the Chinese.
Kryptonite?
Let’s not forget rare earth, and the drum solo.
When it comes down to it, a nation’s wealth is defined by what’s in the ground. This is a MAGA Move!
I’m finding it difficult to believe that this would represent the first ever survey “in modern times” of critical rare earth minerals. This has been a known issue for a long time. At one time the federal government had stockpiles of all sorts of things - including mohair, helium, and crystals - for crystal radios! Chrome and Vanadium are well known, but others are necessary for aerospace applications, the alloys for rocket engines &c. Seems to me there was one particular mine in NW Montana that was the sole US source for one of the minerals, and the greenies succeeded in shutting it down.
During World War II the US targeted ball bearing plants from the air in Nazi Germany. Without bearings - nothing rolls, not for very long. The same principle applies with respect to certain minerals. Our adversaries know what they are doing.
Not the “first ever”, IIRC.
For the “low-hanging fruit”, all he has to do is go back over the past administration’s 8 years of destruction and see what mineral-producers were shut down and/or sold. Uranium and lead are the first two that come to mind. odongo shut downour last lead smelter by crushing them with EPA regulations. Hitlery sold a big pile of our uranium to our potential enemies for “donations” to their thievery foundation. Just follow these trails and it will be an enlightenment to their eyes.
For those in need of a well written, concise summary about minerals, I found this link to be very helpful...
“What Are Minerals”
http://geology.com/minerals/what-is-a-mineral.shtml