The US Department of Energy has included copper in its latest critical minerals assessment, which evaluates materials for their criticality to global clean energy technology supply chains.
Besides copper, the final assessment list includes aluminium, cobalt, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, terbium, silicon and silicon carbide. “While the DOE critical material list is focused only on the importance to energy technologies, we know copper is critical to overall US economic and national security. CDA will, therefore, continue to advocate for copper’s inclusion on the official USGS critical minerals list, an effort that has bipartisan support in congress and from governors across the country,” says Kireta.
The CDA argues that the USGS should include copper in its official minerals list, owing to its dramatic supply risk. The CDA previously stated that the metal’s risk score is above the threshold for automatic inclusion on the critical minerals list.
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