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Nonfuel Minerals Policy Review: Global Mineral Resources. Oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Mines and Mining of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, September 18, 1980

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OSTI ID:6876081
An oversight hearing was held September 18, 1980 to review nonfuel minerals policy and US vulnerability in international competition for mineral resources. The security aspects of a threatened resource war, in which access to raw materials is intertwined with global political strategies, was described by General Alexander Haig, followed by Admiral Robert J. Hanks' assessment from a geopolitical perspective. Their testimony describes the Soviet Union's impending loss of resource self-sufficiency and suggests appropriate US policies. A representative of US Steel Corp. addressed the specific problem of world manganese production. (DCK)
OSTI ID:
6876081
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English