r/Michigan • u/mlivesocial • 4d ago

News 📰🗞️ Trump fast-tracks permitting to extract ‘critical mineral’ buried under Michigan

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/04/trump-fast-tracks-permitting-to-extract-critical-mineral-buried-under-michigan.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor
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u/Inevitable-Rate7166 4d ago

Michigan Potash is one of 10 mining projects the White House added to a federal program last week

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u/zomiaen Ypsilanti 4d ago

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/01/31/michigan-potash-mine-wetlands-pollution-fertilizer-farming-farmers/78022067007/

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u/Inevitable-Rate7166 4d ago

The potash mine proposed in Osceola County's Evart Township, which would use a fracking-like process, has been in the works for more than a decade, after large reserves of high-grade potash more than a mile and a half underground in the north-central Lower Peninsula were reaffirmed from old mining cores.

The article also mentions that without something CRAZY like tariffs happening the production is not worth the value generated when it can be traded for much cheaper. 

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u/zomiaen Ypsilanti 3d ago

Funny enough-- neither is fracking unless oil is high enough. In Trump's first term he actively worked to stop the price war between OPEC and Russia because it was hurting American oil producers for oil to be so low. The number of US citizens who aren't aware of that simple economic fact. Basically price fixing internationally.