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March 27, 2025

Ron Finklestien

mining

“University of Arizona Launches Initiative to Develop Skilled Workforce for the Mining Industry”

US Push for Domestic Critical Minerals Boosted by Executive Order As the United States aims to bolster production of critical minerals and reduce reliance on foreign imports, President Trump’s recent executive order utilizes the Defense Production Act. This step seeks to provide financing, loans, and investment support essential for domestic processing of these minerals. This announcement coincided with another spike in copper prices, which exceeded $11,000 per tonne in New York on Thursday, amid ongoing global trade disruptions. Regional Innovations to Enhance Domestic Mining Efforts To enhance the United States’ competitive edge in critical minerals and address supply chain weaknesses,

April 23, 2024

Ron Finklestien

mining

Rio Tinto donates $875,000 to Missouri University to research critical minerals recovery from waste

 “There is currently little-to-no production of these two elements in the United States, and we rely to an alarming extent on importing them,” Alagha says. “If successfully implemented, our research could lead to a much stronger domestic supply of these important resources.”  She says recovering gallium and germanium from the wastes created when processing copper is an unconventional approach, but this type of out-of-the-box thinking is necessary for the U.S. to have a more resilient supply of critical minerals.  Both gallium and germanium are more often recovered as a byproduct of other metal refining process, such as with aluminum, zinc and lead, but