My View: Arizona poised to lead in reshoring US mineral production
When looking for an industry critical to sustaining Arizona’s economy, the answer is at your feet. Actually, it starts deeper than that. Reports from the past few years estimate Arizona’s mining industry provides a total economic impact of close to $8 billion annually and employs nearly 40,000 Arizonans. Minerals like copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium are critical manufacturing inputs for some of the state’s most productive industries ranging from aerospace and defense to electronics to clean energy. But as these industries boom, so does our demand for the critical mineral inputs that power them.