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American Resource’s Copper Month may have ended, but copper demand continues to show strength, in spite of a global economy that is anemic at best.  Reuters reports a rapid depletion of current copper stocks, contrary to the macro-economic news of slowing global growth.  American Resources will leave month-to-month fluctuations in copper and other metals markets to the commodities traders; longer-term trends – including the migration of more than a billion people in China and India from subsistence to some semblance of middle class existence over the next decade – will drive global demand for copper and several dozen other metals and minerals.

The larger question is how the world will source these metals – and how the U.S. will continue to enjoy surety of supply.   Today, “Resource Wars” is a metaphor.  If we don’t press forward with domestic resource development, get ready for a world where Resource Wars are the real thing.

As Congress and the Administration continue to play politics over how to create jobs in the U.S., a uranium enrichment project and its jobs are in limbo.  In Piketon, Ohio, a community of about 2,000, USEC, Inc. operates the American Centrifuge project. USEC and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have been in discussions about (…) more

Technological advances are fueling increasing demand for titanium, as well as other specialty metals in the aviation industry. According to the Metal-Pages blog, the industry is relying increasingly on titanium to construct lighter airplanes in an effort to reduce fuel consumption.  Thanks to the metal’s high strength-to-weight ratio, the use of titanium allows for achieving (…) more

Happy Antimony Month! (Said like an-tim-oh-nee in case you didn’t already know.) With the release of the British Geological Survey’s Risk List 2011, which ranked antimony as the metal most likely to be in critical supply, our “metal of the month” re-enters the international spotlight.  According to The Australian, the little-known but much-used metal nobody heard about (…) more

As China continues to hold the world hostage to its restrictive rare earths export policies, Canada is moving forward on a promising REE project discussed on RareMetalBlog.com. The discovery of near-surface mineralization and significant quantities of recoverable rare earth elements (REEs) in 2009 at Quest Rare Minerals’ Strange Lake property on the Quebec-Labrador border has (…) more

Those of us who follow how public policy impacts private-sector efforts to develop domestic mineral resources need to tune in to the current Capitol Hill debate on jobs and economic growth. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) recently introduced the Public Lands Job Creation Act, a bill that he says “will streamline the permitting process for energy (…) more

The Indian Express ran an excellent article this week on India’s efforts to develop a mineral strategy.  The piece gives a broad overview on the global context of the critical mineral mining environment from an Indian perspective. It points out that China not only accounts for more than 90 percent of global REE supply, but (…) more

Canadian-owned Adroit Resources – a mineral exploration company focused on diamonds, precious and base metals – has shifted its focus to the exploration of antimony in Italy.  The company has applied for three new exploration permits in the greater Manciano district of the Grosseto Province, where it already holds four exploration permits. Adroit points out that (…) more

As Copper Month winds to a close, we’re thrilled to begin Antimony Month, the second part of our three-month informational campaign on copper, antimony, and lithium — American Resources’ way of highlighting how metals and minerals are critical to our economic advancement, quality of life and national security.  All this month we’ll be featuring stories (…) more