Posted on 11/06/2025 3:18:47 PM PST by delta7
By Leslie Hook Financial Times, London Thursday, November 6, 2025
The U.S. Department of the Interior has added copper, silver, and metallurgical coal to its list of "critical minerals," increasing the likelihood that these materials could be included in future tariff policies.
The three materials are among 10 elements added today to the list, which is updated every three years by the U.S. Geological Survey. The list determines which minerals are included in the upcoming Section 232 tariff review of levies applied for national security purposes. It also plays a role in determining which domestic projects may receive federal support.
The Trump administration has made it a top priority to secure the supply chains of critical minerals used in the U.S., and greatly expanded the definition of what constitutes a "critical" mineral.
Several of the additions are materials that the U.S. already produces in large quantities and exports, such as metallurgical coal and boron. The USGS said that boron was added after input from industry producers in California. ...
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The puppeteers promised AutoPen DiaperBoy an extra scoop of ice cream if he looked the other way while they were "signing" the order...
He was too busy posting how Abel Reyna was going to put all the Bandidos in prism.
Mouthbreathing simpleton.
“The term “conspiracy theory” is a weapon wielded by those who don’t want people to speculate beyond the narrative they’re told to believe.”
LOL.
Conspiracy theories are fed to people that don’t speculate beyond the narrative they are told to believe.
Your use of the term “weapon” is an attempt to shut me down.
Anything you say, Gaytor.
Looks like The Gaytor’s other screen name came out to play. Some nerve, after he slimed Tina Peters with some Wikipedia junk yesterday. The simpleton is a real POS.
The TexasGaytor POS slimed Tina Peters with some Wikipedia lies yesterday.
He took some time off from orally servicing Schecky Choomer.
The Boss of FR weighed in on this POS LONG ago:
To: TexasGator
Do you have to be an ass every day?
84 posted on 9/26/2015, 6:24:20 PM by Jim Robinson
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3341298/posts?page=84#84
Jim Robinson has shut that troolling POS Gaytor down MANY times.
I lost count of the number of times he’s gotten suspended - and the number of fake screen names like “CandyFloss” he’s used.
I think they’d suspend him permanently, but he provides a good cash flow when he has to buy his way back on, after he mouths off for the umpteenth time.
He’s the dumb*ss who argued vehemently that Abel Reyna the clown was going to put all the bike guys in Waco in prism, after the cops shot them all up.
“CandyFloss” is the latest of TexasGaytor’s fake screen names.
We thought the mods took care of it like the last four or five fake names, but it showed back up after Jim Robinson [Requiescat In Pace] passed away.
Sure, CandyGaytor.
Said the scammer who has multiple Free Republic screen names...
Why did JR ask you ten years ago “do you have to be an ass every day?”
Isn’t it past your bedtime, TroolGaytor?
No, Lee Zeldin did not “debunk the chemtrail conspiracy.” What he did was to state he felt the way most of us do, that the government has been covering something up.
President Trump has great faith in Lee Zeldin. I think you’re problem is you’re opposed to President Trump and his team.
Your post has nothing but character assassination.
This is a mark of low IQ.
To unquestioningly support the establishment narrative is already low IQ enough.
But to push back against others for being willing to question the establishment is even worse.
If TG spoke badly about Tina Peters, then to say he (or she) is a lowlife does not do justice.
The information you give about this poster is appreciated. I will keep it in mind.
He and his alter ego, CandyGaytor, are just trooling you because he’s a lonely old guy who does it for the dopamine hits [dope-a-mining].
Yeah, he was posting some BS from the Lefties at PukeAPedia in order to smear her.
Everyone knows that ANYTHING political from Wikipedia is lies.
But not TexasFloss.
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