MINERALS SUPPLY
Concern in America
(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. The United States, the world’s largest consumer of minerals, faced an acute shortage of raw materials in the coming decades, Department of the Interior officials told Congress yesterday. The nationalisation of mines abroad, rising environmental costs, and lack of technology to extract profitably low-grade ores combined ,to .restrict the availability of the materials, the Assistant-Secretary of the Interior (Mr Hollis Dole) said. The United States had consumed more minerals since 1940 than had been used by the entire world before that date, he said, and she now faced a growing dependency on foreign supplies. “Our nation is not now, nor will it ever be, self-sufficient in all the mineral raw materials it needs,” he said, “and both developing and developed nations abroad are mounting ever-increasing demands for mineral resources to improve their own standards of living.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 18
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