NMA-TV Mining Minute 5-28-2025

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal from the NGO group Apache Stronghold, which was seeking to challenge the transfer of land that is essential for mining operations at Resolution Copper. The ruling is a significant milestone and step forward for Resolution Copper, which holds the potential to become one of the country’s largest copper mines and a significant source of copper for US manufacturing and infrastructure. Increased domestic copper production will reduce our reliance on foreign mineral sources, fortifying our nation’s security.

Looking abroad, Greenland’s minister for business and mineral resources made some interesting comments to the Financial Times yesterday saying that the US and European nations should invest in its mining industry, and if they don’t, the mineral-rich territory would seek partnerships with others, including China. She emphasized that they would prefer to work with European and American partners, but said that if they don’t see investments soon, they will be forced to turn to China.

And President Trump’s focus on nuclear is being met with enthusiasm from uranium developers. President Trump signed four executive orders last week aimed at accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States and set a goal of quadrupling the size of the nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants, from nearly 100 gigawatts of electric capacity today to 400 gigawatts by 2050. To put that in perspective, one gigawatt is enough to power nearly 1 million homes.

That’s your mining minute for this morning, highlighting some of the mining-related matters that are on our minds here in Washington and beyond. Follow us on the National Mining Association’s channels, as well as on Minerals Make Life and Count on Coal, for more on the latest news and policies impacting mining.