The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The U.S. Geological Survey has deemed 35 minerals and metals critical to the security and economic wellbeing of the United States. At least 29 of these – antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, indium, magnesium, manganese, niobium, platinum group metals, rare earth elements, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zirconium – are found in Alaska. Alaska has filled the domestic needs of many of these critical mined materials in the past; has several advanced staged mineral projects slated to produce them in the near future; and currently supplies a globally significant amount of one. Critical Minerals Alaska 2020 provides new details on the uses and markets for these minerals, metals and groups of elements; why they are considered critical to the United States; and where in Alaska they can be found. This full-color magazine delivers a comprehensive resource to policymakers looking for ways to foster domestic production of critical minerals; investors looking for companies with these minerals and metals needed for high-tech, green energy and military applications; and mining executives looking to uncover and develop Alaska’s vast and underexplored critical minerals potential.
