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Rare earths and critical minerals
Rare earths and the environment
While rare earths are used for technologies – such as renewable wind and solar energy – that are expected to help reduce global carbon emissions, their mining, extraction, and processing can also be quite ‘dirty’ and have harmful side-effects; governments must strike a balance between the two.
- Rare earths and critical minerals - what are they?
- Where are they?
- What is the outlook for demand?
- The US-China stand off
- Washington plays catch up
- The European perspective
- Brazil leads the charge
- USA Rare Earth makes its move in Brazil
- Concern over REE preferential access
- Argentina: the lithium RIGI story
- New Chilean government eyes value added
- Peru seen as player with “high geological potential”
- 2023 mining law holds Mexico back
- Bolivia moves away from state-led industrialisation
- Corporate moves in critical minerals and REEs
- Rare earths and the environment
- Conclusion – the coming boom