August 29, 2022 Domestic Copper Mining is Key to Advancements in Electrified Transportation Electric Vehicles cannot exist without copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese, all of which can be found in the United States. Copper is…
November 1, 2020 Enviros lose court battle to stop miners from prospecting on federal land The National Mining Association (NMA), who intervened in the case on behalf of DOI, said the environmental groups sought to invalidate regulations from 2003…
December 10, 2019 Enviro activists behind Obama’s 234,000-acre job-killing Minnesota land withdrawal Rom’s lobbying in Washington directly led to the Obama administration denying renewal of Twin Metals leases in December 2016, and in January 2017 to…
December 9, 2019 Expansion of Utah mining operation safeguards America’s supply of critical minerals “Kennecott is uniquely positioned to meet strong demand in the United States and delivers almost 20% of the country’s copper production,” he said in…
October 18, 2019 If Utah enviros really cared about the planet and its people, they would support cobalt mine in Garfield County As consumers, we have an absolute moral and possibly a national security imperative to explore alternatives to cobalt dug up overseas under conditions of…
August 7, 2019 Trump’s EPA revives Alaska’s Pebble Mine formerly scuttled by Obama Administration …the Army Corps preemptively vetoed the mining project even before it performed its environmental evaluations and impact assessment, which is required for projects that…
July 18, 2019 Congressional Western Caucus urges President Trump to end U.S. dependence on foreign uranium Domestic production for calendar year 2019 is on pace to be a fraction of 1% of total demand and we will import roughly 99%…
June 19, 2019 Elk thriving around Virginia’s reclaimed coal mines The program has been so successful that from 2014 to 2019, the elk herd has actually grown from 71 elk to now around 200….
June 1, 2019 U.S. has plenty of rare earth minerals, dependence on China is foolish This week, it was reported that China is considering cutting off U.S. access to rare earth minerals. If this happens, businesses would have great…
May 20, 2019 Proposed Democrat legislation would kill American hard rock mining The most recent example of the total disconnect between the anti-mining agenda of some in Congress and the importance of American mineral wealth to…
