The USGS Mineral Resources Program entered a partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). The partnership objective is to accelerate advances in science for understanding critical minerals, assessing unknown resources, and increase mineral security for the Nation so USGS can more efficiently assess critical mineral …
— Comprehensive study of the international trade of 24 strategic minerals. • Quantitatively define the "dominator of international trade". • Identify the competitive minerals and areas. • Existing potential hedging interaction between the dominators and …
— Quantification of adsorption processes on clay mineral surfaces is often necessary to predict the extent and the evolution of contaminants' migration in surficial and underground environments. Many studies have been dedicated to retention measurement as a function of pH and ionic strength in relation with the two main identified adsorption …
— As the world sets its sights on Africa's minerals, the competition for access is getting tougher, putting into question future access to these critical minerals. Multiple parties are actively laying claim to certain minerals and building supply chains to ensure their access—perhaps at the expense of the United States' interests.
— It also highlights potential risks, such as greater conflict as the global competition for critical minerals on the African continent intensifies. Tom Sheehy, a distinguished fellow in USIP's Africa Center and the report's executive director, discusses the importance of critical minerals and key recommendations in the report. ...
— In this episode of Asia Insight, NBR's Tom Lutken discusses critical mineral competition with Niharika Tagotra and Kristin Vekasi. Niharika Tagotra is a Senior Research Specialist in the WRI India Energy Program. Before joining WRI, Dr. Tagotra was working as consultant for energy security at the Ministry of External Affairs as a master's ...
— Measuring Competition for Valuable Minerals. The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.. Everybody loves a little competition. It levels the playing field and ensures prices and products are kept affordable and available.
— This competition is driven by expectations that demand for critical mineral components will increase as the world transitions away from fossil fuels. Electric vehicles (EVs), for example, are growing rapidly as a share of the overall automotive market, accounting for 17% of total auto sales in Europe in 2021 and 35% in China in 2022 .
— Geopolitical competition and geographic concentration have increased concerns in many countries about critical mineral supply chains. In the past, China has …
Minerals can be classified into three main types based on their formation processes: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic minerals. Igneous Minerals: Igneous minerals form from the solidification of molten material called magma or lava.When magma cools and solidifies within the Earth's crust, it forms intrusive igneous rocks, and the minerals that …
In collaboration with USGS, MITRE, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DARPA launched the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition, which solicits innovative solutions for automatically georeferencing scanned or raster maps and extracting their features. DARPA and USGS will apply lessons learned from the competition to future ...
— Critical minerals represent the new 'black gold' oiling the 21st century 4IR technology trade. In an era marked by heightened strategic and trade competition …
In particular, valuable minerals took center stage after "conflict diamonds" or "blood diamonds" became a prominent feature of Sierra Leone's civil war. Unfortunately, competition over minerals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has followed a similarly brutal course. This toolkit: 1) examines the relationship between valuable minerals ...
— The list of critical minerals (NARA, 2018) published by the United States (US) in 2018 and the report of the A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2018) indicate that US′ critical minerals depend on foreign suppliers such as China.The US government has taken measures, …
— This report outlined a strategy to fundamentally reset the United States' economic and technological competition with the People's Republic of China, and drew attention to American reliance on Chinese critical minerals. "Critical minerals are the building blocks of everything from basic consumer goods to advanced military technology.
— The interdisciplinary research techniques and methods are more adapted to the new trends of international competition in critical minerals. The article reviews relevant security risk identification and …
— This paper is a review discussing Rwanda's mineral reserves. It aims to identify challenges and opportunities for investment and development of the country's mining sector. Data were collected from the literature review including existing published books, articles, mining reports, and online documents on Rwandan mineral reserves …
and minerals consumption is rising rapidly. The burden of inflated prices in the cartelized potash market falls, for example, mainly on India, China and Brazil, the main importers of the mineral fertilizer. China, as the world's largest importer of metals and minerals, is particularly vulnerable to mineral market distortions.
— U.S.-China mineral competition. Researchers find that of the 42 minerals, both the U.S. and China are highly import-reliant on 11, on account of heavy domestic consumption, limited resource endowments, or limited processing capacity. Among these minerals are niobium, a mineral crucial for bridges, skyscrapers, oil pipelines, and …
— Because mineral resources have always been important to change and growth, there has always been significant competition between major producers across the world (Dubiński, 2013), as these strategic mineral resources influence a country's economic stability and international competitiveness (Zhu et al., 2020). The rise of emerging …
— The role of critical minerals in national economic systems is becoming increasingly important. In geopolitical conflicts and international competition, critical minerals are becoming more important than traditional bulk minerals (iron, copper, aluminum, etc.) (Pitron, 2022). At the same time, net zero targets are increasing demand …
— As ASEAN embark on the journey towards higher deployment of green energy technologies, there is no denying that critical minerals will play a pivotal role. Globally, the energy transition is projected to produce 6.5 billion tonnes of end-use materials between 2022 and 2050, which 95% would be the required supply of steel, copper, and …
— Collectively, these four essays provide context for the new geopolitics and strategic competition emerging around controlling critical minerals and outline pathways for the United States and its partners in …
China this week announced a plan to revitalize that railway, providing direct competition to a U.S.-backed rail corridor from the mineral-rich area to the other side of the continent.
— The competition for critical minerals is likely to escalate as nations strive to innovate in the shift from high- to low-carbon economies. As electrification makes the world's energy economies increasingly dependent on minerals, critical minerals are likely play an expanding role in the Sino-American rivalry for influence and power [16] .
— Jun 6, 2024. Tom Campbell Wins the Desautels (and the Lidstrom, too!) Tom was thrilled and honored to be awarded both the Desautels Trophy for the "finest individual display of crystallized mineral specimens entered in the show" and the Lidstrom Trophy for "the outstanding single mineral specimen entered in the competition" at the …
— The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to deemphasize great-power competition in its strategy toward Africa. This aligns with the US Strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa, which the White House released in 2022. ... The critical minerals discussion on extraction, national security, and supply chains will move past Africa …
Critical minerals are defined as commodities essential to the U.S. economy and national security with significant supply chain vulnerabilities. The supply of many critical minerals remains highly vulnerable to disruption due to high levels of import reliance, particularly on unstable or even adversarial nations.
— African countries may use this rise of a new geopolitics of mineral supply chains and the competition between major economies to transform their extractive sectors in a direction that unlocks economic …
In the SDS, total mineral demand from nuclear power – mostly chromium, copper and nickel – grows by around 35% compared to 2020 levels, reaching almost 70 kt by 2040. However, demand for these minerals from nuclear accounts for less than 6% of overall demand from low-carbon power.
— The Asian share of global fertilizer consumption is more than 60% and growing rapidly. This supply-demand pattern influences mineral fertilizers' trade-flow and thereby global competition. Hence, there is a need to develop the fertilizer mineral sector and adopt policies and strategies to ensure materials security.
— Global superpowers must keep the quest for minerals within the boundaries of economic competition and refrain from using force. Western governments need to live up to their promises of a just energy transition by putting in place and enforcing strong regulation that ensures responsible mining and holds accountable all companies …
— The goal of these policies explicitly aims to increase U.S. critical mineral production or secure access of overseas resources, rather than depend on China. The trend of competition over critical minerals …
— U.S. production and refining of critical minerals has been declining for decades, while production has become more concentrated in fewer countries. Given the urgency to increase and better secure critical mineral supply, DARPA partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to launch the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment …
— Apart from gallium and germanium, most mineral supplies have either moderate or low disruption potential. Nevertheless, supply chains for the minerals examined have a strong nexus in the PRC, granting China considerable freedom to manipulate its export controls across a range of material inputs, scaling up or down in accordance with …
— Therefore, this paper will examine America's strategic dilemma in the mineral sector through the lens of competition with China. Within the framework of U.S.-China security competition, security concerns will take precedence over normal economic incentives and international cooperation cannot be expected with any certainty.
