The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Critical Minerals Alaska provides details on the uses and markets for the minerals, metals and groups of elements critical to the United States; why they are considered critical; and where in Alaska they can be found. In 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey listed 35 minerals and metals as critical to the security and economic wellbeing of the United States. At least 29 of these – antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, indium, magnesium, manganese, niobium, platinum group metals, rare earth elements, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zirconium – are found in Alaska. Alaska has filled the domestic needs of many of these critical minerals and metals in the past; has several advanced staged mineral projects slated to produce them in the near future; and currently supplies a globally significant amount of one. This full-color magazine delivers a comprehensive resource to policymakers looking for ways to foster domestic production of critical minerals; investors looking for companies with these minerals and metals needed for high-tech, green energy and military applications; mining executives looking to uncover and develop Alaska’s vast and underexplored critical minerals potential; and anyone interested in metals and technology.
