If you’ve sold equity in your company at some point, you’re probably used to keeping track of your cap table and knowing which shareholders have how big of a stake.

But how would you feel about the U.S. government taking a sizable chunk of your business too?

That’s the increasingly common reality for a growing number of U.S. companies, a new analysis by The New York Times finds—and for all the chatter over the summer about the feds moving to own almost 10% of Intel, computer chips aren’t the only sector seeing increased governmental involvement.

Instead, it’s the minerals, metals, and mining industry that comes up again and again in

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