USGS Updates List of Critical Minerals
The U.S. Geological Survey will publish its 2025 list of critical minerals Nov. 7, according to a Federal Register notice.
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The final list, which revises a list published in 2022, includes 60 minerals: aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, boron, cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, metallurgical coal, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, phosphate, platinum, potash, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, silicon, silver, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc and zirconium.
Arsenic, boron, metallurgical coal, phosphate, tellurium, and uranium weren't included in the 2022 list.
The USGS said the decision for how to update the list focused on two criteria: “1) an economic effects assessment that quantified the potential impacts of foreign trade disruption scenarios on the U.S. economy, and (2) an examination of whether the mineral commodity’s supply chain relied on a sole domestic producer that represented a single point of failure.”