Essay on America’s Growing Minerals Deficit: the White House Recognize This Problem

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Nowadays, the White House’s own Material Genome Initiative that securing America’s access to critical metals and minerals will be the most notable issue. Because of the command of the resources to power modern manufacturing and more dependent on metals and minerals access, the Jobs are increasing more than before. The President of the United States discussing about the policies of science. The White House Office of Science simply stated that the most plentiful materials like iron, lead, and copper fueled for country’s industrial economy, but today’s rare materials that stopping the growth of industry like lithium, and indium are not abundant as the predecessors. The problem that we are not recognizing is the depletion of the metals and minerals that we are using now for convenience of our life. Generally, the GE(General Electric) is using seventy-two of the first eighty-two elements on the periodic table in its products. This happening can described to this term, “gateway metals.” But the light, a ray of hope, an element called copper become able to support transportation, manufacturing, modern medicine and the major alternative-energy sources to power up the technology of future. And also, the copper was already second most used metal in defense applications. The White House saying that their goal is to “discover more, manufacture as fast as possible they can. It will be a huge challenge to the American innovators or reforming the streamlining the permitting process to get