On 4 February, the US government convened a critical minerals ministerial in Washington DC. The meeting, attended by representatives of 54 countries, had the stated aim of securin ...
You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.
US financing of Pakistan’s Reko Diq mine shows how critical minerals are becoming tools of statecraft, reshaping geopolitics, industrial policy, and great-power competition. For Pakistan, a country ...
The next global resource shock may not be about oil. It may be about the minerals inside the batteries that we’re betting on ...