U.S. House bill aims to boost domestic mining of strategic minerals

The bill, which contains provisions worth roughly $2 billion over 10 years, is the latest in a string of recent U.S. legislation attempting to craft a national strategy to produce more lithium, rare earths and other so-called strategic minerals.The federal mining review process "is arduous," Representative Paul Gosar, a co-sponsor of the bill and a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, told Reuters.The bill would also require the U.S. Geological Survey to complete fresh studies of