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John W. Peterson: “If we are not mining it from our own lands, we will be buying it from some foreign country.”

On the recordOctober 2, 2000
If we are not mining it from our own lands, we will be buying it from some foreign country.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Discussing domestic resource mining and foreign dependency.

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