So, I have been on a bit of a quest to understand why Soros is fucking with Missouri so hard. It seems an odd place to stir up shit, frankly. While we do things here in MO, we are hardly an economic superpower or major point of strategic value if you look at population statistics, gdp, and the like.

I notice something that has changed in the last year, however. An explosion of manufacturing investment in MO. I will refrain from completely doxxing myself, but I know that what we have seen is "only the beginning." Pettis county is getting a Nucor foundry. Steel and rebar. I can only assume their barstock will come from Minnesota and others, as well as reprocessing local scrap from Stanley Black&Decker and others (SBD recently bought the old Waterloo factory - big stuff happening, there - Craftsman brand in Lowe's by Q2, if I remember correctly).

3M up in Boone has a hiring wave going that seems larger than the typical post-winter spool-up. I am even seeing some increased momentum in the diecasting community (which has previously been marked by consolidation after consolidation - while we have been able to compete with China on the quality front, automation control and the red queen principle have made it less of a factor).

This is all rather foundational industry (well… Spare for Waterloo, but you all want a place to keep your tools, I imagine). This is stuff you use to build more factories and buildings. Further, where are they going to get the materials? Missouri is dotted with old iron mines, lead mines (silver byproduct from them is actually more valuable than the lead), and abandoned mining infrastructure. The easier access afforded by other deposits accessible by strip mines drove mining elsewhere.

However, I had a lot of difficulty locating geologic survey data for minerals. Missouri has a lot of limestone and granite (talk about opposite ends of the spectrum). Granite and other metamorphic or igneous rock is where you typically find the mineral goodies. In theory, there should be some form of 'gold' in them there hills of the Ozarks. The last public survey I can find is from the 50s.

However….

https:// archive.usgs.gov/archive/sites/www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp-ID=3794.html

There was a helicopter survey done of my old stomping grounds back in 2014. The results of which, I am trying to find.

Ferguson and the shenanigans at Mizzou followed this survey. It seems like after this point, the Soros machine began to bear down on Missouri more so than in the past. Our Attorney General committed suicide and one of his aides caught it like a contagion. Having met our AG personally and shared a veteran status with him, I found this turn of events rather suspect. He was absolutely gutting the Democrat governor's budget items and the fraud surrounding them. As far as I saw and know, the man is an amazing patriot and his loss is probably one of the greatest unsung tragedies to strike the state.

My theory is that Missouri is going to be used as a strategic industrial region central to the nation from which more sweeping development of surrounding regions can occur. Further, there is considerable speculation of gold, copper, rare earths, and uranium in parts of South-East MO.

https:// minerals.usgs.gov/science/semissouri/index.html

"The geological framework and origin of the iron-copper-cobalt-gold-rare earth element (IOCG-REE) deposits in southeast Missouri are not well defined. In most areas, the geology surrounding the deposits is uncertain, owing to limited outcrops of the host Precambrian igneous rocks (St. Francois Mountains terrane) and a widespread cover, as much as about 450 meters thick, of Cambrian sedimentary rocks. As a result, the geometry, age, and petrology of buried plutons and subvolcanic intrusions in the St. Francois terrane–and potentially undiscovered metal deposits–are unknown, except where data are available from drill cores.

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The St. Francois Mountains terrane likely has the highest potential for undiscovered large rare earth element deposits in the conterminous United States. This terrane is geologically analogous to iron-copper-gold-rare earth element-uranium deposit and similar (but smaller) deposits that have been discovered there in recent years. All of these deposits in the Gawler Craton (south Australia) occur within granite and rhyolite, beneath hundreds of meters of flat-lying sedimentary rock, and each was discovered by airborne geophysics (Skirrow et al., 2002). Geological and geophysical techniques used successfully in the Gawler Craton, by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and the Geological Survey of South Australia, will be evaluated by this project, and where relevant, applied to the St. Francois Mountains terrane."