Royalties for Minerals Extracted from Federal Lands February 17, 2011 | New York Times The New York Times has an article titled "Federal Royalties for Gold and Copper?". ... Rare Earth Elements in Afghanistan February 13, 2011 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek An article on the Bloomberg BusinessWeek website explains that there are significant deposits of rare... Mining Copper and Gold in the Gobi Desert August 30, 2011 | CNN Copper deposits in the Gobi Desert have been known for hundreds of years. Now... Uses of Copper January 23, 2011 | USGS USGS has published a Fact Sheet on copper. It includes information on the uses... |