Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining

From The Economist

Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is interested in Greenland for, among other things, its vast store of minerals and the largest deposits of rare earths outside China. In Ukraine he is eyeing the country’s apparently significant lithium resources. Noting Mr Trump’s interest, in February the Democratic Republic of Congo’s leaders offered America their mineral reserves.

Yet the hankering for foreign minerals is only part of it: Mr Trump’s bigger ambitions are at home, where he hopes to supercharge a declining industry that has gained strategic importance.