Copper: Essential for electric vehicles, power grids, and data centers, its inclusion is expected to unlock significant federal incentives for domestic production.
Metallurgical coal: Added to align with the Trump administration’s support for fossil fuels and to boost domestic steel production.
Uranium: Critical for nuclear reactor fuel, reinforcing national energy security.
Boron: Used in defense and clean technology applications, with growing strategic importance.
Lead: A key component in batteries and industrial processes, included due to supply chain vulnerabilities.
Phosphate: Vital for global fertilizer production and food security, with its re-inclusion highlighting agricultural supply concerns.
Potash: Another essential fertilizer mineral, previously on the 2018 list but omitted in 2022, now restored due to its critical role in agriculture.
Rhenium: A high-performance metal used in jet engines and industrial catalysts, with supply concentrated in a few countries.
Silicon: Fundamental for semiconductors and solar panels, critical for both technology and clean energy sectors.
Silver: Used in electronics, solar panels, and industrial applications, with significant demand growth.
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Oh man. Do you all know about all the copper telephone cables out there are being replaced with fiber? Gotta be a lot of it out there just waiting to be recycled-just gotta remove the sheathing.
“Silver: Used in electronics, solar panels, and industrial applications, with significant demand growth.”
Don’t forget: silver iodide is used in cloud seeding, otherwise known as chemtrails or contrails as Trump’s EPA calls them.
The puppeteers promised AutoPen DiaperBoy an extra scoop of ice cream if he looked the other way while they were "signing" the order...
Don’t forget the silver bullets we need to stockpile.