Replies to post #33686 on Niocorp Developments Ltd (NB)

[GrowthMindset]

When was this update released?

[ctkrod]

Per the document itself, it's an update to a 2016 report, not a response to Trump's EO. Also from the document:

In response to the Executive Order, the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and in consultation with the heads of other relevant executive departments and federal agencies, will publish a list of critical minerals in the Federal Registry in February 2018. The Subcommittee’s early warning screening tool has been used as a starting point to develop this interagency critical minerals list. Additional input used for the development of this forthcoming list included information on U.S. mineral import reliance statistics, supply chain studies, and expert opinion from the Federal agencies representing the Subcommittee.

[User-462888]

Quote from the Report, page 3:

In response to the Executive Order, the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and in consultation with the heads of other relevant executive departments and federal agencies, will publish a list of critical minerals in the Federal Registry in February 2018. The Subcommittee’s early warning screening tool has been used as a starting point to develop this interagency critical minerals list. Additional input used for the development of this forthcoming list included information on U.S. mineral import reliance statistics, supply chain studies, and expert opinion from the Federal agencies representing the Subcommittee.

Thus, there's still a chance that Scandium will be added to the list through other input than this Report, e.g. input from the DoD or other expert opinion.

Fingers crossed.

[PutzMueler]

“The purpose of the NSTC Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (CENRS), Subcommittee on Critical and Strategic Mineral Supply Chains is to advise and assist the CENRS and the NSTC on policies, procedures, and plans relating to identification and forecasting of mineral criticality, and risk mitigation in the procurement and downstream processing of minerals identified as or forecasted to become critical. Maintaining access to and availability of essential resources also fall within the scope of the Subcommittee, both as raw commodities and as a part of downstream supply chains that may be sensitive to disruptions in global supply.”


“identification and forecasting of mineral criticality, and risk mitigation in the procurement and downstream processing of minerals identified as or forecasted to become critical.”

Scandium may just be forcasted to be critical in the future! Would it be on the critical list?
Or a different list (forecast/future)