NMA Mining Minute

NMA Mining Minute 12-25-2025


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This holiday season, as you gather with loved ones at home to enjoy a holiday meal or open gifts, we hope that you'll remember that mining makes every aspect of the holidays happen. Coal and uranium are providing baseload power right now, lighting holiday lights and keeping homes warm across the country. Lithium, nickel and copper, are key to the smart phones and electronics many are unwrapping under the tree. And for those jumping on planes to visit grandma, titanium and molybdenum help make aircraft strong, while silver and gold are key components of the GPS that will guide you through those final miles in the car, once you land. So whether it's platinum or beryllium, gypsum or lead, you can be sure that a full range of mined materials will get you where you're heading, will keep the lights on, and will keep everyone on your gift list happy. And for those of you staying at home this holiday season, who woke up to a stocking full of coal, that's actually great news. During the recent cold snaps we've seen over the past week, coal has been the leading fuel for electricity generation so hang onto that coal, it may just come in handy if this unseasonably winter continues in the way it started.

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NMA Mining MinuteBy National Mining Association