Mineral Mining EO

[elkhunter505]

Slipped through the cracks of the news yesterday. Section 5a shown here in this picture calls for the primary land use where minerals are to be mining.

Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United

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[Pony Soldier]

Within Montana, less than 2% of the land has locatable minerals. I know as I built the maps. Of that land, you are then limited by grade levels and economics. Of that less than .2% had any chance for development due to government restraints.

With the limits to our own security this fits into the catagory of critical and strategic. The work on this was done by the US Bureau of Mines in the 80s and early 90s under the name "Inventory of Land Use Restraints" (ILURP). My office did the 6 western states. The Colorado office could have done their western states.

I don't think we were ever allowed to publish the results but they were "Open File Reports". Results like this was probably why the Bureau was defunded in 1996.