{"id":701031,"date":"2026-06-24T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701031"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:22:06","slug":"down-days-like-today-for-silver-are-a-reminder-on-why-the-us-government-is-instituting-price-floors-on-critical-minerals-investments-are-being-made-in-america-to-lead-the-world-in-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701031","title":{"rendered":"Down days like today for silver are a reminder on why the US Government is instituting price floors on critical minerals.  Investments are being made in America to lead the world in critical minerals refining, specifically silver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MBAeconomics1\/status\/2069433607966405093\">https:\/\/x.com\/MBAeconomics1\/status\/2069433607966405093<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>AND<\/h3>\n<h4>U.S. Secures Silver Smelter Deal to Process Latam Metals<\/h4>\n<p>Under the plan, the U.S. Department of Defense will hold a 40% stake in the JPM Financed smelter joint-venture.<\/p>\n<p>Korea Zinc plans a $7.4 billion investment to construct a large-scale non-ferrous metals smelter in Clarksville, Tennessee, a project U.S. officials say will materially expand domestic critical minerals processing capacity and strengthen supply chain security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsdalemint.com\/articles\/2026\/u-s-secures-silver-smelter-deal-to-process-latam-metals\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqdXtks1MNDTkvqRd0iKn02xz5LEW9nP3CsLCb9bZiJGJ5yM2kt\">https:\/\/www.scottsdalemint.com\/articles\/2026\/u-s-secures-silver-smelter-deal-to-process-latam-metals\/?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>First I&#8217;ve heard of price floors &#8212; anyone familiar with government policy on same???? I think it may be a concept the writer is promoting&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/x.com\/MBAeconomics1\/status\/2069433607966405093 AND U.S. Secures Silver Smelter Deal to Process Latam Metals Under the plan, the U.S. Department of Defense will hold a 40% stake in the JPM Financed smelter joint-venture. Korea Zinc plans a $7.4 billion investment to construct a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701031\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701034,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701031\/revisions\/701034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}