Critical minerals
Materials designated as essential to an economy and vulnerable to supply disruption, from rare earths to gallium and graphite.
Critical minerals are the materials a government has designated as both essential to its economy or defence and subject to a meaningful risk of supply disruption. The specific lists differ by country and are revised periodically, but they consistently include rare earth elements, lithium, cobalt, graphite, gallium and germanium.
The risk they carry is usually concentrated in processing rather than in extraction. Ore is mined in many places; refining and separation into usable material is frequently dominated by a small number of facilities in a small number of countries, which means a substitution that looks straightforward on paper takes years to build in practice. That concentration makes them a standing export control instrument as much as a commodity.
For anyone modelling compute or energy supply they sit several layers below the visible product and surface suddenly. A restriction on one refined material can constrain semiconductor substrates, magnet supply for generators, or battery production at the same time, which is exactly the kind of shared dependency a connected model finds and a set of separate feeds does not.
Evidence that keeps pace with the decision.
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