Critical minerals

The term ‘critical minerals’ refers to a range of metals and minerals – like lithium, cobalt, and rare earths.

These minerals are used to make many technologies essential (or ‘critical’) to daily life, including mobile phones, semiconductors (used in computer chips), electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, and fibreoptic cables.

Without these minerals – and the technologies they
enable – global economies would be significantly disrupted.