"I am very curious why uranium was listed as a critical mineral in 2018 version of the list, but for some reason it no longer qualified just a few years later for the 2022 list under this current administration," he said.
Days after his visit, President Biden designated Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, heretofore barring access to rich uranium deposits, further confirming the administration is disincentivizing domestic uranium development despite the nation's dependence on Russian ore and processing capacities.
"To me, that's unacceptable. We can do better. We've got deposits of uranium and the Biden administration has put our most valuable uranium deposits off-limits," Westerman said.
"Whatever your political philosophy, there is simply no reason to prop up the uranium industry," Mr. Grijalva wrote in an October 2019 USA Op-Ed. "We have no domestic uranium shortfall, and our supply chain is perfectly stable. The price of uranium is low, and the business case for more uranium mining-at least without massive federal subsidies at taxpayer expense-does not exist. Uranium cheerleaders tend to gloss over these issues, but that doesn't make them less relevant."
Uranium, Helium, Potash De-Listed Using standards imposed by The Energy Act, revised 2021 criteria, and the new evaluation process, when the USGS posted its updated critical mineral list in March 2022, uranium, potash, rhenium, strontium, and helium were no longer on it.
AD. A List of Lists While uranium and copper are not included on the USGS's critical mineral list, they are included on a similar list maintained by the United States Department of Energy updated in July 2023.
The Biden administration was guiding the USGS's listing process to de-list uranium while "In real time, world events were highlighting the criticality of uranium and potash and helium" he said, noting "Utah is home to the nation's last functioning conventional uranium mill and is also the only state in the union which produces the higher value sulfate of potash, which made the exclusion of uranium and potash and the revised critical minerals list especially puzzling to Utahans."
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