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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "Strategic Resource Intelligence",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-05",
  "description": "OSINT research, white paper analysis and law and policy analysis on critical minerals, industrial capacity and geopolitical power.",
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      "id": "silver-stealers-audit",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Silver Stealers: An Evidence Audit",
      "summary": "An independent review of Silver Stealers: which historical findings hold up, which leads merit investigation, and where interpretation exceeds the presented evidence.",
      "url": "/research/silver-stealers-audit/",
      "analysisFile": "research/silver-stealers-audit.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-05",
      "sourceYear": "Multiple editions",
      "searchTerms": [
        "Silver Stealers",
        "silverstealers.net",
        "Charles Savoie",
        "source audit",
        "Pilgrims",
        "CFR",
        "stockpile",
        "inference"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Evidence audit",
        "Silver policy",
        "Institutional networks",
        "Source verification"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "project-solarium",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Project Solarium: The American Crusade",
      "summary": "Trace the American Crusade passage, British strategic decline, resource access and the difference between Solarium proposals and adopted policy.",
      "url": "/research/project-solarium/",
      "analysisFile": "research/project-solarium.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-05",
      "sourceYear": 1953,
      "searchTerms": [
        "American Crusade",
        "Eisenhower",
        "British Empire",
        "Task Force A",
        "Task Force B",
        "Task Force C",
        "NSC 162/2",
        "Suez",
        "Truman Doctrine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Geopolitics",
        "British imperialism",
        "Resource access",
        "Cold War",
        "National security"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "project-solarium-task-force-a",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Task Force A: Alliances, Resources and Endurance",
      "summary": "Examine Kennan’s task force on coalition strength, resource development, colonial tensions and the costs of sustained preparedness.",
      "url": "/research/project-solarium/task-force-a/",
      "analysisFile": "research/project-solarium-task-force-a.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-05",
      "sourceYear": 1953,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "Task Force A",
        "Eisenhower",
        "NSC 162/2",
        "Cold War"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "National security",
        "Resource access",
        "Alliances"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "project-solarium-task-force-b",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Task Force B: Deterrence and the Threat of General War",
      "summary": "Examine the proposed boundary against Soviet military expansion, general-war deterrence, imperial commitments and public support.",
      "url": "/research/project-solarium/task-force-b/",
      "analysisFile": "research/project-solarium-task-force-b.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-05",
      "sourceYear": 1953,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "Task Force B",
        "Eisenhower",
        "NSC 162/2",
        "Cold War"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "National security",
        "Resource access",
        "Deterrence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "project-solarium-task-force-c",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Task Force C: The American Crusade",
      "summary": "Trace the American Crusade proposal through its phases, economic and covert pressure, regional commitments and accepted risks.",
      "url": "/research/project-solarium/task-force-c/",
      "analysisFile": "research/project-solarium-task-force-c.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-05",
      "sourceYear": 1953,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "Task Force C",
        "Eisenhower",
        "NSC 162/2",
        "Cold War"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Project Solarium",
        "National security",
        "Resource access",
        "Strategic offensive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "world-order-critical-minerals",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "World Order and Critical Minerals",
      "summary": "Read Bradley H. Roberts's 1996 world-order framework through today's contest over mineral access, processing capacity and resource sovereignty.",
      "url": "/research/world-order-critical-minerals/",
      "analysisFile": "research/world-order-critical-minerals.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceYear": 1996,
      "topics": [
        "Critical minerals",
        "Geopolitics",
        "Resource governance",
        "Silver"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "strategic-minerals-1993",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Strategic Minerals in the New World Order",
      "summary": "Analyze Kent Hughes Butts's 1993 mineral-security argument against current import dependence, stockpile governance and processing risks.",
      "url": "/research/strategic-minerals-1993/",
      "analysisFile": "research/strategic-minerals-1993.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceYear": 1993,
      "topics": [
        "Critical minerals",
        "Stockpiles",
        "Geopolitics",
        "Industrial capacity",
        "Silver"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "strategic-minerals-us-alternatives-1990",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Strategic Minerals: U.S. Alternatives",
      "summary": "Test Kenneth A. Kessel's 1990 distinction between dependence and vulnerability against today's supply alternatives, processing constraints and silver substitution evidence.",
      "url": "/research/strategic-minerals-us-alternatives-1990/",
      "analysisFile": "research/strategic-minerals-us-alternatives-1990.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceYear": 1990,
      "topics": [
        "Critical minerals",
        "Supply resilience",
        "Substitution",
        "Industrial capacity",
        "Silver"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "waste-pcb-metal-content-2020",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Waste Circuit Boards and Strategic Metals",
      "summary": "Examine the 2020 Croatian circuit-board study through sourced metal-content tables, charts and the evidence needed to turn electronic waste into qualified secondary supply.",
      "url": "/research/waste-pcb-metal-content-2020/",
      "analysisFile": "research/waste-pcb-metal-content-2020.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceYear": 2020,
      "topics": [
        "Electronic waste",
        "Recycling",
        "Critical minerals",
        "Silver",
        "Gold",
        "Copper"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "photographic-silver-recovery-1981",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Silver Recovery from Photographic Wastes",
      "summary": "Examine GAO's 1981 federal laboratory audit, distinguish reported results from savings models, and trace recovery through custody, refining and qualified secondary supply.",
      "url": "/research/photographic-silver-recovery-1981/",
      "analysisFile": "research/photographic-silver-recovery-1981.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1981,
      "searchTerms": [
        "PLRD-81-48",
        "GAO",
        "Civil Agencies Should Save Millions",
        "photographic wastes",
        "fixer",
        "PMRP",
        "Veterans Administration"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Recycling",
        "Federal agencies",
        "Recovery economics",
        "Inventory controls",
        "Secondary supply"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "historical-silver-production-1930",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Historical Silver Production, 1493–1927",
      "summary": "Explore the Bureau of Mines' 1930 compilation through period averages, annual world output, historical producing territories, regional shifts and U.S. ore sources, with source tables and CSV downloads.",
      "url": "/research/historical-silver-production-1930/",
      "analysisFile": "research/historical-silver-production-1930.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1930,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Summarized Data of Silver Production",
        "Merrill",
        "Economic Paper 8",
        "1493",
        "1927",
        "Bureau of Mines",
        "Table 46",
        "byproduct",
        "fine ounce"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Historical production",
        "Data methodology",
        "Producer concentration",
        "Ore sources"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "silver-stockpile-requirements-1979",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "Silver Stockpile Requirements in 1979",
      "summary": "Read GAO’s complete 1979 stockpile audit through revised supply estimates, priority-tier carryover, historical war flows and the evidence needed to turn potential silver holdings into emergency supply.",
      "url": "/research/silver-stockpile-requirements-1979/",
      "analysisFile": "research/silver-stockpile-requirements-1979.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1979,
      "searchTerms": [
        "LCD-79-410",
        "B-125067",
        "GAO",
        "National Defense Requirements",
        "Federal Preparedness Agency",
        "zero goal",
        "139.5",
        "142.3",
        "MX",
        "1976",
        "1982",
        "carryover"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Stockpiles",
        "National defense",
        "Supply estimates",
        "Data methodology",
        "Substitution"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "silver-outlook-usbm-1970",
      "type": "white-paper-analysis",
      "title": "USBM’s Silver Reserve Warning for 2000",
      "summary": "Examine USBM’s 1970 warning: 1968-price silver reserves fell below projected demand through 2000, while broader resources could meet demand at higher prices.",
      "url": "/research/silver-outlook-usbm-1970/",
      "analysisFile": "research/silver-outlook-usbm-1970.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1970,
      "searchTerms": [
        "USBM",
        "Bureau of Mines",
        "Mineral Facts and Problems",
        "Bulletin 650",
        "Ageton",
        "run out by 2000",
        "silver reserves",
        "submarginal resources"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Reserves and resources",
        "Historical forecasts",
        "Mining economics",
        "Recycling",
        "Strategic supply"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "silver-institute-audit",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Silver Institute Data and Methodology Audit",
      "summary": "Examine published estimates, changing definitions, institutional relationships and the evidence behind claims about silver availability.",
      "url": "/silver-institute-audit/",
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Data methodology",
        "Institutional research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "silver-standards",
      "type": "osint-research",
      "title": "Military and Aerospace Silver Standards",
      "summary": "A source-linked register of silver specifications and applications in military and aerospace systems.",
      "url": "/silver-standards/",
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Industrial capacity",
        "Defense"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "battle-act-1951",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "title": "The Battle Act of 1951",
      "summary": "Trace the Battle Act’s aid conditionality, strategic-material lists and documented mineral cases while keeping the silver designation unresolved.",
      "url": "/research/battle-act-1951/",
      "analysisFile": "research/battle-act-1951.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1951,
      "topics": [
        "Strategic trade",
        "Export controls",
        "Silver",
        "Thorium",
        "Uranium",
        "Copper",
        "Cobalt"
      ],
      "searchTerms": [
        "1952",
        "1979",
        "aluminum",
        "molybdenum",
        "beryl",
        "beryllium",
        "aid conditionality"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "defense-production-act-1950",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "title": "The Defense Production Act of 1950",
      "summary": "Examine production priorities, capacity finance and battery-material measures, with dated cobalt and graphite awards and the reviewed 2026 termination provisions.",
      "url": "/research/defense-production-act-1950/",
      "analysisFile": "research/defense-production-act-1950.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1950,
      "topics": [
        "Industrial capacity",
        "Critical minerals",
        "Cobalt",
        "Graphite",
        "Lithium",
        "Nickel",
        "Manganese",
        "Silver"
      ],
      "searchTerms": [
        "DPA",
        "2022",
        "2024",
        "2026",
        "priorities",
        "allocations",
        "loans",
        "purchase commitments"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "strategic-materials-stockpiling",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "title": "Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling",
      "summary": "Connect the 1939 law, 1946 expansion and 1979 revision to reserve decisions, the historical silver-disposal debate and later planning evidence.",
      "url": "/research/strategic-materials-stockpiling/",
      "analysisFile": "research/strategic-materials-stockpiling.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1939,
      "topics": [
        "Stockpiles",
        "National defense",
        "Silver",
        "Strategic minerals",
        "Supply resilience"
      ],
      "searchTerms": [
        "1946",
        "1979",
        "1981",
        "1982",
        "2024",
        "2025",
        "reserve",
        "disposal",
        "acquisition",
        "DPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "coinage-hearings-1969",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "documentKind": "congressional-hearing",
      "title": "Silver, Coinage and the 1969 Congressional Hearings",
      "summary": "Analyze the complete 1969 coinage hearing, competing claims on industrial and reserve silver, source data and the distinct collector/circulation compromise enacted in 1970.",
      "url": "/research/coinage-hearings-1969/",
      "analysisFile": "research/coinage-hearings-1969.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1969,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Coinage Act",
        "H.R. 13252",
        "H.R. 14127",
        "Eisenhower",
        "Kennedy",
        "Carson City",
        "GSA",
        "seigniorage",
        "1970",
        "1971",
        "Public Law 91-607",
        "Silver Users Association",
        "American Mining Congress"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Coinage",
        "Congressional hearings",
        "Stockpiles",
        "Industrial demand",
        "Public asset sales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "national-defense-stockpile-mcdonald-1981",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "documentKind": "congressional-hearing",
      "title": "Larry McDonald and the Silver Stockpile Debate",
      "summary": "Trace Larry McDonald’s 1981 case for retaining and acquiring silver, the wartime supply model he challenged, and the dispute over sale proceeds and production capacity.",
      "url": "/research/national-defense-stockpile-mcdonald-1981/",
      "analysisFile": "research/national-defense-stockpile-mcdonald-1981.json",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-10-04",
      "sourceYear": 1981,
      "searchTerms": [
        "Larry McDonald",
        "National Defense Stockpile",
        "H.A.S.C. 97-15",
        "H.R. 2603",
        "H.R. 2784",
        "H.R. 2912",
        "H.R. 3364",
        "FEMA",
        "Silver Users Association",
        "revolving fund",
        "DPA",
        "silver disposal",
        "KAL 007",
        "survival allegations",
        "Bert Schlossberg",
        "unresolved leads"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Silver",
        "Congressional hearings",
        "Stockpiling",
        "Emergency supply",
        "Defense production",
        "Public finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "laws",
      "type": "law-policy-analysis",
      "title": "Historic Laws and Strategic Minerals",
      "url": "/research/laws/",
      "description": "Trace historic laws and congressional hearings through strategic trade controls, industrial demand, production capacity and public reserves, with sources for each mineral relationship."
    }
  ]
}