🚨 Is America Is Throwing Away Its Critical Minerals?
Buried in US mining waste:
• 229,000+ kt of aluminum
• 81,000+ kt of lead
• 3,400 kt of copper
• 1,020 kt of nickel
• Rare earths, cobalt, lithium
At the same time the US imports thousands of kilotons of these materials every year.
The real story?
Supply risk isn’t only about new mines.
It’s about reprocessing tailings already sitting on U.S. soil.
Critical minerals are not just underground.
They’re in yesterday’s waste piles.
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