Pentagon Moves to Expand U.S. Supply of 13 Strategic Minerals

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Pentagon seeks U.S. projects to mine 13 critical minerals for defense & semiconductors, offering $100M-$500M+ funding to reduce foreign dependence. (read full article...)

 

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Kind of a wake up call, I worked at Newport News in the late 70’s in the Forging and Heat Treating shop ( M51, for those familiar with NNS & DD Co); chromium and vanadium were a big part of the secret steel formulations and I’m reasonably sure none of it was coming from China at that juncture…