The United States depends on foreign sources for many strategic and essential minerals. Secure supplies of such minerals are crucial to the nation's economic and military well-being, but federal policies with regard to these minerals have continued to vacillate. This volume considers the minerals availability issue from a number of perspectives. In
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Preface -- International Minerals: Problems and Opportunities -- Two Centuries of Mineral Policy in Wisconsin -- Overview of Alaska's Strategic Minerals -- Mineral-Resource Analysis in Canada -- South African Minerals and World Demand -- The U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan Mineral Resources -- The Global Struggle for Minerals: A Historian's Perspective
