Publication

This report, based on two years of research, site visits and discussions with stakeholders, explores how the supply, demand and use of minerals can impair US foreign relations, economic interests and defense readiness. It examines cases of five individual minerals – lithium, gallium, rhenium, tantalum and niobium – and rare earth elements, such as neodymium, samarium and dysprosium, as a sixth group in order to show the complexity of addressing these concerns.