The Elements of Innovation Discovered
Critical Minerals Alliances 2023 includes 29 minerals, metals, and groups of elements essential to the electric vehicle, lithium battery, renewable energy, and other sectors of the North American economy – aluminum, cobalt, copper, gallium, germanium, graphite, lithium, nickel, five platinum group metals, 14 rare earth elements, tellurium, and uranium. This year’s edition of Critical Minerals celebrates the forging of regional, national, and international alliances that are needed to span the nearly a $1 trillion chasm between today’s lithium battery supply chain and where it needs to be by 2035 in order to build the envisioned green energy future where electric vehicles are charged with low-carbon energy. Critical Minerals Alliances also offers in-depth coverage of: • The push to elevate copper’s criticality, and USGS’s reluctance to do so. • The need for mine permitting reform, and the steps being taken in the U.S. • The wider implications of China’s gallium and germanium export restrictions. • An Australia-Canada-US partnership to merge data and enhance critical minerals discovery. Overall, the publisher of Critical Minerals Alliances 2023 hopes the in-depth insights offered by this one-of-a-kind magazine helps academia, conservationists, consumers, governments, investors, local stakeholders, manufacturers, and miners forge alliances that will ensure the establishment of a cohesive strategy to sustainably extract, reuse, and recycle the elements of 21st-century innovation.
