{"id":363651,"date":"2025-01-27T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363651"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:56:12","slug":"mine-baby-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363651","title":{"rendered":"Mine, baby, mine!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant<\/em>. The USA already produces more oil and gas<\/a> than any other nation, and he intends to unleash its full potential \u2013 for energy and<\/em> for petrochemical feedstocks for 6,000+ pharmaceutical, plastic, paint, fabric, cosmetic and other products. As he puts it, \u201cDrill, baby, drill!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abundant, reliable, affordable energy is the lifeblood of modern industrial societies. But they also need hundreds of metals and minerals, because nothing can be manufactured or grown, and no wells can be drilled, without them. That\u2019s why the President has also launched similar initiatives for those treasure troves in Alaska and the Lower 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That call to action is \u201cMine, baby, mine!\u201d and before that \u201cExplore, baby, explore!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stone Age didn\u2019t end because our ancestors ran out of stones, nor the Bronze Age because they exhausted copper supplies. They ended because societies needed weapons and goods that were better, stronger, more durable \u2013 and innovators discovered iron substitutes, iron deposits and techniques for converting ores into finished products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, every technological transformation throughout history required finding and mining previously unknown and unneeded metal and mineral deposits that suddenly became essential for progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump-47\u2019s Executive Orders<\/a> for drilling and mining \u2013 and ending offshore wind, Green New Deal and electric vehicle mandates, subsidies and programs \u2013 will dramatically reduce the need for millions of tons of copper, steel, cobalt, lithium, rare earths and other materials. However, they won\u2019t end<\/em> that need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now America can simply build more coal, gas and nuclear power plants \u2013 instead of 10,000 wind turbines and 10,000,000 solar panels, backed up by<\/em> fossil-fuel generators \u2026 or huge battery warehouses like the one that recently became<\/a> yet another conflagration in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, today\u2019s rapidly evolving server, artificial intelligence, aerospace, military and other technologies still mean we must find and produce materials that almost no one ever mined or even heard of until recently: rare earth elements, cobalt, lithium and scores of other critical strategic minerals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China controls 60% of global rare earths<\/a> production and processes 90% of it \u2013 including ores mined in the USA and other countries. It also controls cobalt<\/a> and lithium production and processing, and almost all the processed graphite<\/a> used in lithium-ion batteries for cell phones, EVs and grid-scale backup batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means the United States is dependent on this adversarial nation for numerous technologies; even Navy SEAL equipment<\/a> requires 20+ minerals that are at least 50% imported, many from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This untenable situation was underscored last December, when China severely restricted exports<\/a> of antimony, gallium and germanium, especially to the United States, because they are essential for both civilian and military technologies. The Middle Kingdom could block many more such exports, using exports as a weapon of diplomacy, extortion or war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation makes no geologic sense either. The plate tectonic and geologic history of Alaska and the western states in particular have blessed America with countless, often enormous deposits of metals and minerals across the periodic table of elements<\/a>. Some are well-known, while others have yet to be discovered, mapped or developed to serve changing, growing and increasingly strategic needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the 1964 Wilderness Act<\/a> recognized this. Section 2 permits prospecting to gather information about mineral resources and requires \u201cplanned, recurring\u201d mineral surveys, if those activities are conducted in a manner consistent with preserving \u201cthe wilderness environment.\u201d There is no \u201cend\u201d date for this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 3 permitted mining claims and mineral leasing, exploration, drilling, roads, production, mechanized equipment, and other necessary operations and facilities, until midnight December 31, 1983. The only stipulation was that disturbed areas be reclaimed and restored \u201cas near as practicable,\u201d once mineral extraction had ceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, federal bureaucrats ignored this clear language and stalled, stymied or prohibited all requests for permits to conduct such work, including recurring government mineral surveys and assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rupert Cutler\u2019s comment to me in 1978 encapsulates their attitude, then and now. \u201cI don\u2019t think Congress should have enacted that provision,\u201d he said. \u201cBut Congress did enact it, and you are obligated by your oath of office to follow the law the way it was written, not the way you think it should<\/em> have been written,\u201d I responded. Dr. Cutler simply walked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Successive generations of federal land managers \u2013 in consort with preservationists, courts, presidents and legislators \u2013 have banned or severely restricted<\/a> even minimally intrusive exploration in huge wilderness, wilderness study, wildlife refuge, Antiquities Act, and even undesignated forests, deserts and grasslands \u2013 regardless of critical national needs or clear legislative language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National parks should be off-limits. In most cases, these other lands should not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1994, when I helped prepare perhaps the last detailed analysis, mineral exploration and development had been banned in federal land areas equal to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming combined. That\u2019s 420 million acres \u2013 19% of the USA; 66% of all federal\/public lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s gotten \u201cprogressively\u201d worse, even though processes unleashed by plate tectonics, volcanism and other forces created some of the most highly mineralized deposits in North America, and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State and local legislators, regulators, judges and activists have treated non-federal lands the same way. Even world-class deposits have been deep-sixed, often on questionable grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cannot continue. These areas must be surveyed and explored by government agencies and private companies. Vital and high-quality deposits must be made available for mining, under sound environmental principles, to meet the requirements of current and future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failure to do so violates the most fundamental principles of national defense, national security, responsible government and societal need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaska\u2019s Pebble Mine prospect<\/a> has an estimated 55 million tons of copper ore, 3.3 billion tons of molybdenum, plus other metals needed for wind turbines, solar panels, EVs and other technologies; yet Biden\u2019s EPA rejected permit applications even before mining plans were submitted. Other world-class Alaskan deposits of copper, cobalt, zinc, titanium, gold, silver, zinc and other metals also sit in limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden officials also reversed mining permits for the world\u2019s largest copper-nickel deposit<\/a>, in Minnesota, and President Biden himself banned all mining in 225,000 acres of the state\u2019s Iron Range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fate of the Kings Mountain lithium deposit (possibly 5,000,000 tons of Li) in North Carolina is likewise uncertain, as is that of many other excellent prospects, even though modern US laws and technologies would ensure far better environmental practices than elsewhere worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some concerns are certainly valid, others exaggerated, still others reflective of a determination to block mining anywhere in the USA, or even de-develop and de-industrialize America and the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, environmental and other considerations must always be balanced against needs for critical metals, minerals and energy to sustain modern societies and living standards. Making America Great Again \u2013 and responding to today\u2019s national security threats and needs \u2013 requires changing federal and state perspectives, policies and laws to recognize this. It\u2019s a simple matter of reality and common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy\u00a0dominant. The USA already\u00a0produces more oil and gas\u00a0than any other nation, and he intends to unleash its full potential \u2013 for energy\u00a0and\u00a0for petrochemical feedstocks for 6,000+ pharmaceutical, plastic, paint, fabric, cosmetic and other products. 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