00:00So thank you again on behalf of Rio Tinto, BHP, and the hundreds of underground miners who are absolutely fabulous
00:07that run the mine today.
00:09Thank you very much. We are rolling in drill rigs, we are rolling in equipment, and we're getting on with
00:14it.
00:14Good luck. I don't think you're going to need too much luck. Tom and David, go ahead, please.
00:22Mr. President, I'm a very, very proud former alumni of the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Mines.
00:29So on behalf of all the faculty here, the students here, I am thrilled with all of your announcements today.
00:35I mean, we've all been frustrated over decades. You're making something happen. I really appreciate that.
00:43My first mining job was in Alaska staking the claims near the Ambler District, and we were in a rush
00:48then.
00:48This was 1975, 1976, and it's still not permit. Thank you for breaking that logjam.
00:55I have presented to you a gift to the American people on a project that I've been very involved with.
01:01It's deep-sea nodules. Like you, I'm a fan of gold, and this is a solid gold replica of a
01:08deep-sea nodule.
01:09Now, I wish the nodules down the deep-sea had a lot of gold in them that would be more
01:13attractive,
01:14but they do contain 20 critical metals, and these are 20 critical metals that are going to be needed for
01:20the reindustrialization of America.
01:22They're going to be needed for defense purposes.
01:24They're going to be needed for all the technologies that we are relying on,
01:28and every single citizen in the United States take for granted.
01:31That should be part, a key part of the supply chain, and that's what mining can do.
01:35Thank you very much.
01:37Where's the gold? Come on, play it over.
01:39Pass it down.
01:40I want the gold. He just said, let me see what it looks like.
01:44It should be very heavy.
01:45The gold is more fun.
01:47Let me see.
01:52It is. It's heavy.
01:53It's real.
01:54It's fantastic.
01:56Oh, I like that, too.
01:58This is so valuable.
02:01I don't know. Do you have a lot of competition, I hope?
02:03Because people have to go after.
02:05This is so, people have no idea how valuable that it is.
02:08Thank you very much, fellas.
02:10It's really beautiful.
02:11Please, David.
02:12And as somebody who joined the Trump administration from the mining industry,
02:15I just want to say that absolutely nobody supports our industry more than President Trump.
02:19So, for decades, we felt ignored by Washington,
02:22and we've seen our industry outsourced to our geopolitical competitors.
02:26So, I'm so grateful to work for you, because you get it,
02:28and you understand that this industry is foundational to our economic and national security.
02:32So, thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership on these issues.
02:35And I know from all of us here in industry that we are committed to building the world's best mining
02:40sector here in the United States
02:41and reestablishing American mineral dominance.
02:42Thank you, sir.
02:43Great. Thank you very much.
02:44Thank you, sir.
02:44Thank you, sir.
02:44Thank you, sir.
02:45Thank you, sir.
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