“A stockpile could be a fail-safe, but not a solution to the underlying problem of China’s current control over critical mineral supplies and markets, and our economic vulnerability from lack of supply security or industrial know-how,” said Abigail Hunter, executive director of the Center for Critical Minerals Strategy at SAFE, an organization that advocates for U.S. energy security.
Hunter says she welcomes Harris’s focus on critical materials and would like to see a clearer path to market for domestic mines and more global initiatives to accelerate investment in this area.
Read the full story: “Why Kamala Harris Wants to Stockpile Minerals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.”
