The Copper Development Association (CDA) today issued the following statement from Adam Estelle, President and CEO, in response to President Trump’s Executive Order “Immediate Actions to Increase American Mineral Production,” signed March 20, 2025.
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I write from the Copper Development Association (CDA), the North American based not-for-profit
association of the copper industry, bringing together the North American copper and
copper alloy semis fabricators and global copper mining and production industries, to bring
awareness to the increased need for copper to be recognized as a critical mineral.
CDA requests your assistance to exercise your statutory authority under section
7002(c)(4)(B) of the Energy Act of 2020 to immediately designate copper as an official
Critical Mineral by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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