Lyle Trytten (The Nickel Nerd) has 30 years of experience in the base metals and fertilizer industries, working on projects across multiple continents, technologies, and roles, from R&D and engineering to commercialization and operations.
This is an article that I – a Canadian – never thought I would have to write, but these are strange times. With the capricious nature of the current US administration – breaching signed treaties and contracts, threatening and imposing tariffs that change every week, annexation threats, and dramatic escalation in the restrictions and burdens placed on immigrants and visa holders – one country is trying to radically reshape the integrated nature of the global economy.
Is re-shoring entire manufacturing chains feasible or desirable?
The USA has been a manufacturing and innovation powerhouse for more than a century. The availability of vast amounts of resources – land, energy, minerals, and hard-working people from across the world – has created a country that leads the world in many important areas.
The last 40 years has seen globalization reshape the manufacturing supply chains – to the benefit of consumers. What does bringing it all back home mean? What are the likely impacts in the mining and metals space? Some thoughts from a neighbour. Mining and metals production is about extracting resources that exist in the ground and processing them to end products which are suited for making consumer goods.
For the rest of this column: https://theoregongroup.com/guest-post/america-together-or-america-alone-a-mining-to-metals-viewpoint/