CMI Project 4.2.7 Enhancing criticality assessment – from backward-looking to anticipatory perspectives

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diagram showing increasing material criticality for manufacturing

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Critical materials and manufacturing: comparing China, the European Union, Japan and the United States

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CMI Team shares research with Central Asian Delegates

Cumulative Availability Curve for Lithium, 2022, including 124 conventional brine and hard-rock deposits containing 649 MMT LCE in situ resources and additional 41 MMT LCE in 8 selected categories of unconventional deposits for which quantity and cost estimates are available. Other unconventional deposit types are not included in the figure but discussed in the text of the paper.

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Evaluating the long-run availability of lithium

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Grand challenges in anticipating and responding to critical materials supply risks

This project will research understanding the history of materials criticality, and developing ways to reliably predict the future criticality of minerals in the U.S. economy. Compared to existing analyses, this project will will be more forward looking and focused on identifying what might become critical, more in-depth by focusing on specific supply chains in specific energy-technology areas, and broader by evaluating the environmental and social dimensions of critical materials as well as supply chain risks and resiliency. This will build on enhanced criticality assessment in the U.S. Department of Energy’s America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition (https://www.energy.gov/policy/securing-americas-clean-energy-supply-cha…).