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USGS report informs critical mineral policy

Summaries offer annual snapshot of US mineral supply chain Metal Tech News Weekly Edition – February 19, 2020

 

Last updated 7/2/2022 at 9:14am

United States Geological Survey USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2020 cover

United States Geological Survey

Mineral Commodities Summaries 2020 provides vital information on the production, recycling, imports and trends of more than 90 different mineral-related products in the United States.

The United States depends on foreign countries for more than 50 percent of its supply of 31 minerals considered critical to the nation's economic wellbeing and national security, including 100 percent import-reliant for 14 of them, according to Mineral Commodity Summaries 2020, a recent U.S. Geological Survey report.

The list of mined commodities for which the U.S. is fully reliant on foreign n...



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