The World - News from Oct. 11, 1985
The United States faces no mineral shortages in the near future because of reliance on imports from South Africa, but policy-makers should make long-range plans because of political uncertainty there, Reagan Administration officials told Congress. Robert Wilson, director of the Commerce Department’s Office of Strategic Resources, said the United States gets 55% of its chromium from South Africa, 49% of its platinum, 44% of its vanadium and 39% of its manganese. All are considered critical for industry and defense. The United States has a $12-billion stockpile of important minerals.
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