Bipartisan group introduces bill to boost minerals ‘mapping’

Bipartisan group introduces bill to boost minerals ‘mapping’

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers this week introduced a bill aimed at facilitating international cooperation on “mapping” and developing critical minerals and rare earth elements. The “Finding Opportunities for Resource Exploration Act,” introduced in the House on Thursday and earlier this week in the Senate, would allow the Interior secretary to sign memoranda of understanding with like-minded countries “for the purpose of sci…

Castor Introduces Bipartisan Bill Improving Critical Mineral Mapping

Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) has introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to improve the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) ability to map critical minerals geologically. Named the Finding Opportunities for Resource Exploration (Finding ORE) Act, Rep. Castor's bill seeks to give the United States a competitive advantage over China in the critical mineral production industry by establishing memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with foreign al…