The security of critical mineral supply chains

The critical mineral supply chain emphasizes the comprehensiveness of competition. The purpose of secu-rity evaluation of strategic mineral supply chains is to serve national strategic decisions and layout. The existing security evaluation model is challenging to meet the requirements of the new development goals.

Critical Minerals: Global Supply Chains and Indo-Pacific …

The Trump administration later accelerated the response to Chinese dominance of the high-tech critical mineral supply chain. The Biden administration has brought a sharper focus on production at home and diversification abroad that prioritizes "reshoring" and "friendshoring." Nonetheless, the United States still faces real …

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Energy and critical mineral supply chain readiness. To more consistently track risk and opportunity across energy supply chains, DOE is developing an assessment tool that accounts for raw ...

A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable …

All stages of the critical mineral supply chain are important and can impact one another. For example, increasing the rate of mining without increasing corresponding 4 As defined in Executive Order 13817, a critical mineral is "a mineral identified by the Secretary of the Interior [pursuant to the Executive Order] to be (i) a non-fuel mineral ...

BATTERY MINERALS & SUPPLY CHAIN 2024 (Australia)

This year's BATTERY MINERALS & SUPPLY CHAIN 2024 is set to become the world's leading exhibition and conference exclusively for upstream battery mineral miners and explorers and downstream processing to meet and collaborate with end-users, including battery manufacturers, to address mineral quality and critical supply chains.

Ensuring supply reliability and resiliency – Introducing the …

Introducing the Critical Minerals Policy Tracker. Ensuring supply reliability and resiliency. Recent price trends have emphasised the need for policy intervention to enhance critical …

Minerals Security Partnership

The Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) aims to accelerate the development of diverse and sustainable critical energy minerals supply chains through …

Examining Critical Mineral Supply Chains

Posted on: September 10, 2021. SAFE's Ambassador Alfred Hoffman, Jr. Center for Critical Minerals Strategy held a briefing and panel discussion to examine how mineral supply chains affect American competitiveness and national security. Minerals and metals form the basis of our increasingly electric and connected world: Do we risk off-shoring ...

A U.S. Mineral Strategy for Global Energy Transition

A secure and reliable supply chain for critical minerals is essential for the U.S., and global energy transition. This event highlighted the CSIS research and key recommendations on how to complement and augment existing efforts to better characterize the risks of supply disruptions and grow robust supply chains for the minerals that will fuel the energy …

Supply Chain Security | U.S. Department of the Interior

The EO directed a government-wide approach to assess the vulnerabilities in, and strengthen the resilience of, critical supply chains of various goods, including critical and strategic minerals essential to the economic and national security of the United States. The EO also initiated a 100-day supply chain review requirement, and the ...

2024 OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains

The 17th edition of the Forum will reflect longstanding and emerging priorities in fostering responsible mineral supply chains, with sessions spanning often overlooked conflict risks, development minerals, regional sessions on gold supply chains, policy cohesion in an evolving regulatory landscape, and the role for responsible business conduct in …

Young, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Secure Critical Mineral Supply

Washington – U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Angus King (I-Maine), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Critical Minerals Security Act, which would help secure U.S. access to critical mineral supply chains and counter Chinese industry dominance. The legislation would direct the …

The security of critical mineral supply chains | Mineral …

Critical minerals are the cornerstone of the new round of the industrial revolution. The global division of labor established under the traditional technology, industry, and trade systems is facing a significant restructuring. Global economic and technological changes will lead to a long-term increase in demand for critical minerals. The critical …

Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Secure Critical Mineral Supply

"Critical minerals are essential to both America's national security and our supply chain resiliency since these raw materials are used in our military technologies and consumer goods," said Sen. King. "The Critical Minerals Security Act would help us better understand these complex supply chains so we can secure United States' access ...

Biden-Harris Administration Invests $17 Million to …

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois) will perform a FEED study needed to establish a fully integrated, vertical supply chain that would be located entirely within the State of Illinois for production of select critical minerals from coal-based sources.

The security of critical mineral supply chains | Mineral …

Recent advances in the global rare-earth supply chain

The current global rare-earth element (REE) supply chain is highly imbalanced and tightly controlled by just a few countries. Such an imbalance of the critical metals supply chain poses a significant challenge to the energy-transition strategies and the national security of many countries. This issue of MRS Bulletin delves into the …

Securing Critical Minerals Supply Is Key to US Climate …

Supply chain vulnerability The dominance of China in the critical minerals market is seen by some U.S. stakeholders as a significant threat to supply chains. While China corners the market in production of only two of these minerals, the processing situation is very different.

Handbook on Environmental Due Diligence in Mineral Supply …

This handbook was developed to help companies embed environmental considerations into their mineral supply chain due diligence procedures. The handbook builds on the leading international, government-backed standards on supply chain due diligence and responsible business conduct: the OECD Guidelines for Multinational …

Responsible Minerals Initiative Releases ESG Standard for Mineral …

The Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) ESG Standard leverages the RMI's extensive experience in minerals supply chain assurance and benchmarking against internationally recognized frameworks. The new Standard provides a set of criteria applicable to mineral processors, smelters and refiners, including those integrated with …

Supply Chain Policy for Conflict Minerals

the E.U. Conflict Minerals Regulation (2017/821) which defines supply chain due diligence for importers and processors of tin, tantalum and tungsten, gold, and their ores from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRAs). We procure a number of mineral raw materials, which we use to produce mobile and process

Resource realism: The geopolitics of critical mineral supply …

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Mineral Supply Chain | U.S. Geological Survey

WEBThe National Minerals Information Center produces reports on materials flow, recycling, supply chain, and sustainability. These publications describe the flow of …

Supply Chains Control | U.S. Department of the Interior

The Administration understands that in order to strengthen the domestic mineral supply chain, with robust environmental protection and stakeholder engagement, we need to overhaul how we approach mining on federal land. The Department is committed to working with Congress, the mining industry, Tribes, mining communities, …

Sustainable supply chain management for minerals

As inputs to virtually all supply chains (SCs), mineral resources drive the modern economy. However, despite the substantial sustainability impact of the initial stages of mineral SCs, these remain largely outside the scope of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). This paper aims to map the intersection of the literature on …

Building Larger and More Diverse Supply Chains for Energy Minerals …

The Energy Act of 2020 defines a critical mineral as a "non-fuel mineral or mineral material essential to the economic or national security of the U.S. and which has a supply chain vulnerable to disruption." The law requires the USGS to update its list of critical minerals at least every three years, which informs federal agencies' use of ...

Supply Chain for Lithium and Critical Minerals Is

The supply chain for lithium and other critical minerals, a physically tiny part of energy storage and electric vehicles, is immense and complex. It touches geopolitical, environmental, and economic issues that currently lie outside the U.S.' direct control. The components to build a successful supply chain for American lithium and …

Securing Defense-Critical Supply Chains

Critical Minerals and Materials, included in the 100-day response to E O 14017 published on June 8, ... Because supply chain resilience is critical for U S national security and economic strength, a clear national consensus—bolstered by public, private, and social sector prioritization—has emerged around ...

Stronger Supply Chain Links to a Clean Energy Future

Supply chains are only as strong as their weakest links. Reliance on imports, paired with untapped domestic manufacturing capabilities and the growing need for skilled workers, can make the clean energy industry vulnerable to production shortages, trade disruptions, and natural disasters. Transforming the Clean Energy Supply Chain.

Sustainable and Responsible Critical Mineral Supply Chains

This report explores how the environmental, social and governance impacts of mining and processing operations can limit the critical mineral supplies needed for …

Framework for Securing American Critical Mineral Supply …

A fully integrated strategy for a secure supply chain of critical minerals requires domestic capacity for processing, refining capabilities, and recycling to go hand-in-hand with increased domestic/allied resource extraction. While the economic and national security benefits of increased domestic processing capacity are largely appreciated, the ...

CRITICAL MINERALS AND MATERIALS

the domestic supply chain for minerals (including the development of new supply chains and the processing, remediation, and reuse of materials already in interstate commerce or otherwise available domestically); • Within 90 days of the date of the Executive Order, propose for notice and comment a rule or rules to revise

OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are government-backed recommendations on responsible business conduct to encourage sustainable development and enduring social progress., The Guidance provides recommendations for responsible mineral supply chains to help companies to respect human rights and avoid …

Responsible Minerals Initiative

With more than 500 member companies, the Responsible Minerals Initiative is one of the most utilized and respected resources for companies from a range of industries addressing responsible mineral sourcing issues in their supply chains.. We provide companies with tools and resources to make sourcing decisions that improve regulatory …

Framework for Securing American Critical Mineral Supply …

There is broad bipartisan interest in building strong and reliable critical mineral supply chains, as demonstrated by recently enacted laws including: The John. …