Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
Reducing dependency on imports will be hard
Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its vast store of minerals and the largest deposits of rare earths outside China. In Ukraine he is eyeing the country’s apparently significant lithium resources. Noting Mr Trump’s interest, in February the Democratic Republic of Congo’s leaders offered America their mineral reserves.
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