Copper water pipes are better to American human life than Lead pipes.
Unfortunate choice of words here, “clean energy, electric vehicles,”
No, NOT clean, they mostly shift the pollution to their manufacture instead of spreading it out over the vehicles life.
Claimed long term saving do not happen due to the short life of EV’s.
ICE may actually be cleaner.
Now, as to Copper.
I live in a Copper mining town.
Big proven reserves but the mine has been slow to grow and county residents are a bit annoyed at the lack of promised local jobs and other benefits.
I do not know for certain, but I am told the ore goes to China for processing.
...On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order advancing the Ambler Access Project, a 211-mile industrial road through the Brooks Range foothills that enables commercial mining for copper, zinc and other materials in a remote Arctic area in Northwest Alaska.
That executive order, one of dozens signed by Trump in the early hours of his administration, reverses a move by former President Biden to block the project and represents a significant change in energy policy, according to experts who spoke to Fox News Digital....
Zambia has copper mines and could use some help economically.
The Resolution Copper Project in Superior, AZ (east of Phoenix) could supply 25% of America’s copper demand - if it were producing
It has been in permitting stage for almost 25 years. Its undergoing lawsuits from Apache Nation as well as Sierra Club and the Biden Administration withdrew Trump 1 support for the project.
Its silly to blame China for producing copper - when the United States refuses to allow production of its own resources
One of the primary luxury beliefs the US can no longer afford is the notion that you can have a rich, industrialized country and a pre-industrial environment.
I buy copper everyday. I'd really like to see independence with our needs here.
A single foreign producer dominates global copper smelting and refining, controlling over 50 percent of global smelting capacity and holding four of the top five largest refining facilities.
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Chile