In the United States we have made many mistakes with our industrial mining companies and without the flow of raw materials to market we cost our manufacturing industries billions per year in additional costs to bring these materials to the facilities from far away lands. It is a darn shame considering this huge nation from sea to shining sea, with enough resources to supply the world with raw materials. Oh what have we done?

Well glad you asked because we have systematically condemned mining operations of nearly every possible material in this country thru abuses and over regulations. Our iron ore is some of the purest in the world and yet we import much of our raw steal with impurities in it from other nations. Same with copper, platinum, aluminum, titanium and so on; in fact in reading the long list you begin to cry at what we have done and the severe disadvantage we have put our industrial capacity and corporations at.

It is too bad we cannot go back and fix the problem and perhaps we can now with our superior know-how and achievements in environmental controls and worker safety devices and robotics to do much of the mining. And to that point maybe we will, but until we do our manufacturers are competing while having their supply lines tied behind their backs, so please if you are anyone of any real power to change things, well lets just say now might be a very good time!