Fact Sheets

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Minerals Make Life

Our Medical Supply Chain Needs a Strong Domestic Mining Industry

Minerals and metals are essential to our modern medical world and are key to many of the medicinal i...

Regulating U.S. Mining

Mining is one of the most heavily-regulated industries in the world. The Mining Law of 1872 – whic...

Commonsense Regulation that Recognizes Existing State and Federal Protections

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2017 decision not to impose additional financ...

Muddy Existing Clean Water Regulation

Both the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Water Act place limits on federal authority over waters, an...

Dept. of the Interior’s Sweeping Land Withdrawals Threaten U.S. Minerals Security

The U.S. Department of Interior is proposing to withdraw 10 million acres of mineral rich land fro...