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Historic Laws and Strategic Minerals
Trace historic laws and congressional hearings through strategic trade controls, industrial demand, production capacity and public reserves, with sources for each mineral relationship.
Follow statutory authority, contested policy choices, implementing measures and documented mineral effects.
Restrict access
The Battle Act connected foreign assistance to strategic trade controls.
Build supply
The Defense Production Act supports production priorities and capacity expansion.
Hold reserves
Stockpiling legislation governs materials held for national defense.
5 law and policy analyses in this collection
Law and policy analysis · 1951
The Battle Act of 1951
Trace the Battle Act’s aid conditionality, strategic-material lists and documented mineral cases while keeping the silver designation unresolved.
- Strategic trade
- Export controls
- Silver
- Thorium
- Uranium
- Copper
- Cobalt
Reviewed October 4, 2026Read the analysis →
Law and policy analysis · 1950
The Defense Production Act of 1950
Examine production priorities, capacity finance and battery-material measures, with dated cobalt and graphite awards and the reviewed 2026 termination provisions.
- Industrial capacity
- Critical minerals
- Cobalt
- Graphite
- Lithium
- Nickel
- Manganese
- Silver
Reviewed October 4, 2026Read the analysis →
Law and policy analysis · 1939
Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling
Connect the 1939 law, 1946 expansion and 1979 revision to reserve decisions, the historical silver-disposal debate and later planning evidence.
- Stockpiles
- National defense
- Silver
- Strategic minerals
- Supply resilience
Reviewed October 4, 2026Read the analysis →
Congressional hearing · 1969
Silver, Coinage and the 1969 Congressional Hearings
Analyze the complete 1969 coinage hearing, competing claims on industrial and reserve silver, source data and the distinct collector/circulation compromise enacted in 1970.
- Silver
- Coinage
- Congressional hearings
- Stockpiles
- Industrial demand
- Public asset sales
Reviewed October 4, 2026Read the analysis →
Congressional hearing · 1981
Larry McDonald and the Silver Stockpile Debate
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.
- Silver
- Congressional hearings
- Stockpiling
- Emergency supply
- Defense production
- Public finance
Reviewed October 4, 2026Read the analysis →
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