The mineral position of the United States
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1973
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Society of Economic Geologists (U.S.)
Publisher : [Madison] : Published for the Society of Economic Geologists Foundation by the University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Mineral industries
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Papers presented at a symposium, sponsored by the Society of Economic Geologists, held Nov. 15, 1972, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Author : Eugene Nathan Cameron
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : 9780608019246
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : Eugene N. Cameron
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Page : 181 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Eugene Nathan Cameron
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Page : 159 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : Alfred E. Eckes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1477300791
In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival collections and recently declassified government documents, helps to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an important and still timely aspect of America’s global interests.
Author : Eugene Nathan Cameron
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense Production
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Defense contracts
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Author : K. J. Schulz
Publisher : Geological Survey
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Industrial minerals
ISBN : 9781411339910
As the importance and dependence of specific mineral commodities increase, so does concern about their supply. The United States is currently 100 percent reliant on foreign sources for 20 mineral commodities and imports the majority of its supply of more than 50 mineral commodities. Mineral commodities that have important uses and face potential supply disruption are critical to American economic and national security. However, a mineral commodity's importance and the nature of its supply chain can change with time; a mineral commodity that may not have been considered critical 25 years ago may be critical today, and one considered critical today may not be so in the future. The U.S. Geological Survey has produced this volume to describe a select group of mineral commodities currently critical to our economy and security. For each mineral commodity covered, the authors provide a comprehensive look at (1) the commodity's use; (2) the geology and global distribution of the mineral deposit types that account for the present and possible future supply of the commodity; (3) the current status of production, reserves, and resources in the United States and globally; and (4) environmental considerations related to the commodity's production from different types of mineral deposits. The volume describes U.S. critical mineral resources in a global context, for no country can be self-sufficient for all its mineral commodity needs, and the United States will always rely on global mineral commodity supply chains. This volume provides the scientific understanding of critical mineral resources required for informed decisionmaking by those responsible for ensuring that the United States has a secure and sustainable supply of mineral commodities.