"Since the mothballing of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, the U.S. has really been underinvesting in mining and in mining R&D and mining workforce development," said Professor Elizabeth Holley.
"Right now the U.S. graduates fewer than 200 mining engineers per year; our current demand is for something like 600, and so there's already a gap," said Holley.
"We've created our own strategic disadvantage through decades of foreign outsourcing for these materials. And that weakness is about to become a national security weakness as well," says Rich Nolan.
"Their ability to manipulate the commodity prices, as we've seen in the past two weeks, is just shocking," Nolan says.
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