The U.S. Interior Department designated 35 mineral commodities as critical to national security and economic prosperity due to heavy import dependency and vulnerability to supply disruption.
| Signal type | designation |
|---|---|
| Strategic importance | high |
| Materials | Aluminum (bauxite), Antimony, Arsenic, Barite, Beryllium, Bismuth, Cesium, Chromium, Cobalt, Fluorspar, Gallium, Germanium, Graphite (natural), Hafnium, Helium, Indium, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Niobium, Platinum group metals, Potash, Rare earth elements, Rhenium, Rubidium, Scandium, Strontium, Tantalum, Tellurium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Uranium, Vanadium, Zirconium |
Primary source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/02/16/2018-03219/draft-list-of-critical-minerals
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