The United States government has expressed increasing concern in recent years about the United States reliance on critical mineral imports including the potential disruption of supply chains that use these minerals. Presidential Executive Order 13817, “A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals,” tasked the Department of the Interior to coordinate with other executive branch agencies to publish a list of critical minerals.
The Department of the Interior published a final list of 35 critical minerals in May 2018.
The graphic below shows the critical minerals and the United States import reliance.
The United States is 100% import reliant on 14 minerals on the critical minerals list and more than 75% import reliant on an additional 10 critical minerals.
US Strategic Minerals Exploration is committed to supporting the United States national security, industrial production and economic well-being by providing as many of these rare and strategic minerals as possible.