Getting serious about strategic minerals
Journal Article
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· Science; (United States)
The administration's strategic minerals policy will emphasize mining and stockpiling, but there are concerns that national security will be used as justification for destroying public lands. The stockpile effort will raise the current stores of 93 minerals and materials from a value of $15 billion to $18 billion, the estimated requirement for a three-year war. The severity of our minerals crisis is debated because of demand flexibility that could come from conservation, substitution, and recycling and because government agencies disagree on whether the US has many of the resources now imported. Efforts to amend the Wilderness Act by releasing public lands to multiple use and opening up areas to mining are opposed by environmentalists. (DCK)
- OSTI ID:
- 6549284
- Journal Information:
- Science; (United States), Journal Name: Science; (United States) Vol. 212; ISSN SCIEA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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