President Donald Trump took action on Monday to reverse a decision by the Biden era on Ambler Road, which would give access to the mining district of Ambler in northern Alaska, an area rich in copper and other key minerals, including gold and silver.
Trump announced the presidential action on Monday at an Oval Office press conference with the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the energy secretary Chris Wright.
“We make (Alaska) larger, larger and more powerful and employment producer. It is an economic gold mine, so to speak. And I signed years ago, and Biden has not signed it,” said Trump.
“It was something that should have been operating for a long time and winning billions of dollars for our country and providing a lot of energy and minerals and everything we are talking about,” he added. “And they defeated it and have lost a lot of time and a lot of money, a lot of efforts, and now do it again.”
Trump added that there is enough time to finish the project on his presidency.
Burgum noted that the road would take place around 200 miles north of Fairbanks in the mining district of Ambler. He also spoke to the immense potential of the Ambler’s mining district and the importance of critical minerals for the American mission to beat China in the “armaments race” of artificial intelligence (AI):
It is one of the country’s richer places in the country, and of course, today, to build a data center, you can have tens of thousands of tonnes of copper necessary for this. Even a single -family house today can have up to 400 pounds of copper in a house, and we have as a nation in the past, mainly out of the mineral and energy and mining zone. President Trump when he said, Foret, Baby Exercise, he was also mine, baby mine. We have to return to the mining sector. China controls 85 to 100 percent of all mining and refining of the first 20 critical minerals. And in this upper mine zone there, we obtained copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, gallium, Germanium – so rich in all the minerals we need to win the AI arms race against China and prosper as a country.
Wright stressed that Alaskians wanted to develop resources and wish the opportunities that accompany him.
“This is a huge success for the inhabitants of Alaska,” said Wright. “We were on the northern slope of Alaska a few months ago, celebrating the development of energy there. They want jobs and opportunities to develop resources on their land. ”
