Don't forget Dylithium...
Posted on 12/22/2017 9:00:22 AM PST by Hamiltonian
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following President Donald J. Trump's executive order to break America's dependence on foreign minerals, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed a secretarial order directing the initial steps to producing the first nationwide geological and topographical survey of the United States in modern history. The order also directs Interior bureaus to begin work on identifying immediate domestic sources for critical minerals.
"Right now the United States is almost completely reliant on foreign adversaries and competitors for many of the minerals that are deemed critical for our national and economic security. As both a former military commander and geologist, I know the risk this presents to our nation," said Secretary Ryan Zinke. "The problem is we can't fix the problem if we don't know where the minerals are within our own borders. Other nations are far ahead of us with mapping of their mineral resources, leading to private sector investment overseas rather than right here at home. Drafting a complete topographical and geographic survey of the United States is exactly the kind of task the USGS was created to do."
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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!!!
GALENA, IL has a lead mine that is now defunct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena,_Illinois
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.
Don't forget Dylithium...
Good point- that should save $$.
When it comes down to it, a nation’s wealth is defined by what’s in the ground. This is a MAGA Move!
“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.”
In the liberal worldview, and this carries over to those who would fight liberals too, if it isn’t getting you votes in the next election, it’s not worth considering. Also, a crisis is a good thing to have. It allows you to do things you couldn’t do otherwise. So a crisis is a win/win for politicians. Not so much for the poor sods who are bleeding or starving, but, then, they’ll be darned grateful for whatever the government can do for them.
See how all that works?
And the exotic metals used in alloys for jet engine parts.
“The liberal point of view is, if China is willing to sell us the material, let them do it.”
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