The global interior: mineral frontiers and American power

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Notes

¹ Tyler Priest, Global Gambits: Big Steel and the US Quest for Manganese (Westport: Praeger, 2003), 191–254. (accessed December 24, 2021).

² Theo M. van Leeuwen, ‘25 Years of Mineral Exploration and Discovery in Indonesia’, Journal of Geochemical Exploration 50 (1994): 21–3.

³ John Van N. Dorr II, interview by Tyler Priest, February 3, 1993, Bethesda, MD.

⁴ The NAC was composed of the secretaries of Treasury, State and Commerce (and not Interior), the chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System and the chairman of the board of the Eximbank.

⁵ Priest, Global Gambits, 191–263; see also Mats Ingulstad, ‘The Interdependent Hegemon: the United States and the Quest for Strategic Raw Materials during the Early Cold War’, The International History Review 37, no. 1 (2015): 59–79.

⁶ Priest, Global Gambits, 226–49.

⁷ The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, August 7, 1953, https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/outcont.html. (accessed December 24, 2021).

⁸ Tyler Priest, ‘Auctioning the Ocean: The Creation of the Federal Offshore Leasing Program, 1954–1962’, History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana: Vol. 1: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry, US Department of the Interior, MMS OCS Study 2004-042 (2008).

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ Rebecca Lasica, ‘A New Age for Oil and Gas Exploration: Remote-Sensing Data and Analytics Are Changing the Industry’, Earth Imaging Journal, July 14, 2015, https://eijournal.com/print/articles/a-new-age-for-oil-and-gas-exploration-remote-sensing-data-and-analytics-are-changing-the-industry.

¹¹ Mike Forrest, email communication to Tyler Priest, July 18, 2021.