Opinion: It's twisted logic to argue that the proposed Resolution Copper mine would help fill America's needs when most of the copper would likely go to China.
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this op-ed incorrectly identified the top shareholders of Rio Tito mining. Only Aluminum Corporation of China is a Chinese state-owned company.
Arizona mining promoters often claim that the world faces a drastic copper shortage that will block the development of a clean energy economy needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change. The only way to achieve a decarbonized future, they say, is for copper-rich Arizona to avert the supply crisis by developing another generation of so-called “sustainable” copper mines.
Their pitch then deploys an America First trope that other countries, like China, will fill the void without Arizona developing new copper mines.The copper cheerleaders now include Fred DuVal, who misleadingly states in his that “the current – and projected – global copper supply is insufficient to power this transition to clean energy.”
DuVal then suggests a specific way to avert America’s dire copper shortage by constructing the proposed Resolution Mine east of Superior, repeating an unsupported industry assertion that Resolution “will produce up to 25% of America’s needs.”First, the world is not facing a copper supply crisis, according to the leading industry source for copper market transparency. The“Since 1960, there has always been, on average, 38 years of reserves and significantly greater amounts of known resources.
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