The full list of critical minerals includes the following—click a mineral’s name to find relevant statistics and publications:
Aluminum (bauxite), used in almost all sectors of the economy Antimony, used in batteries and flame retardants Arsenic, used in lumber preservatives, pesticides, and semi-conductors Barite, used in cement and petroleum industries Beryllium, used as an alloying agent in aerospace and defense industries Bismuth, used in medical and atomic research Cesium, used in research and development Chromium, used primarily in stainless steel and other alloys Cobalt, used in rechargeable batteries and superalloys Fluorspar, used in the manufacture of aluminum, gasoline, and uranium fuel Gallium, used for integrated circuits and optical devices like LEDs Germanium, used for fiber optics and night vision applications Graphite (natural), used for lubricants, batteries, and fuel cells Hafnium, used for nuclear control rods, alloys, and high-temperature ceramics Helium, used for MRIs, lifting agent, and research Indium, mostly used in LCD screens Lithium, used primarily for batteries Magnesium, used in furnace linings for manufacturing steel and ceramics Manganese, used in steelmaking Niobium, used mostly in steel alloys Platinum group metals, used for catalytic agents Potash, primarily used as a fertilizer Rare earth elements group, primarily used in batteries and electronics Rhenium, used for lead-free gasoline and superalloys Rubidium, used for research and development in electronics Scandium, used for alloys and fuel cells Strontium, used for pyrotechnics and ceramic magnets Tantalum, used in electronic components, mostly capacitors Tellurium, used in steelmaking and solar cells Tin, used as protective coatings and alloys for steel Titanium, overwhelmingly used as a white pigment or metal alloys Tungsten, primarily used to make wear-resistant metals Uranium, mostly used for nuclear fuel Vanadium, primarily used for titanium alloys Zirconium, used in the high-temperature ceramics industries
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