While the mainstream media obsesses over manufactured controversies, President Trump is quietly executing the most ambitious resource independence strategy in American history — and Next News Network just witnessed the beginning with our own eyes.
Project Vault is real. It's happening right now. And the implications for American national security and economic freedom are staggering.
Ground Zero for American Mineral Independence
Forty-five minutes from the township of Houston, British Columbia, in a remote core shack surrounded by frozen wilderness, the raw materials that will power America's future are being extracted, catalogued, and analyzed. Copper. Molybdenum. Gold. Silver. The building blocks of everything from your smartphone to our F-35 fighter jets.
President Trump announced Project Vault just weeks ago — a historic $10 billion initiative combining Export-Import Bank financing with $2 billion in private sector investment to create the first-ever United States Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve. Other presidents talked about resource independence for decades. Trump actually did it.
"For years, American businesses have risked running out of critical minerals during market disruptions," President Trump declared. "Today, we're launching what will be known as Project Vault, to ensure that American businesses and workers are never harmed by any shortage."
The Discovery That Changes Everything
The geology team at Vizsla Copper believes they're sitting on something extraordinary. Their first drill hole at the Thera deposit hit 345 meters of copper mineralization starting just 11 meters below the surface. They've now drilled 11 holes in the area — and every single one shows exactly what they're looking for: veining, stock working, and metal-rich fluid concentrated by ancient volcanic systems over 50 million years ago.
This isn't speculation, folks. This is verified mineral wealth sitting in North American soil, waiting to be developed.
The company has already assembled over 4 billion pounds of copper across their projects, nearly 2 million ounces of gold, and 1.6 billion pounds of zinc. Their Palmer project in Alaska — on sovereign United States territory — has already received endorsement from Alaska's governor.
Why This Matters: The China Problem
Here's what the legacy media won't tell you: America is dangerously dependent on hostile foreign nations for the critical minerals that power our entire economy and military. Remember the SR-71 Blackbird? During the Cold War, the CIA had to create shell companies to secretly purchase titanium from Russia just to build our own spy plane. We were dependent on our enemy to protect ourselves from our enemy.
That vulnerability still exists today — except now it's China holding the cards. Beijing has weaponized their rare earth dominance with trade barriers for years, and they could choke off our supply chain at any moment.
Not anymore. Not on Trump's watch.
The Critical Minerals Dominance Act just passed the House 224-195, allowing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to geologically map the country and determine which federal land can be leased for mining. Swift action on leasing and permitting will take market share directly from China.
The Path Forward
The infrastructure is already in place at the British Columbia site. A 140-kilovolt power line runs right through the property. One of the world's largest copper mines, owned by Teck, operates just up the road. The path to production is clear.
This is what American energy dominance looks like. This is what "America First" means in practice — not just slogans, but boots on the ground, drills in the earth, and minerals flowing to American industry instead of Chinese middlemen.
President Trump promised to end foreign resource dependency. He's delivering. The question now is whether the Senate will pass the Critical Minerals Dominance Act and complete the mission.
Patriots, we're witnessing history. The restoration of American mineral independence has begun — and the globalists who've kept us dependent on hostile foreign sources are about to learn that their leverage is over.