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The Stakes Just Got Higher – The State of U.S. Critical Mineral Resource...
Set to deliver his first State of the Union address today (March 1, 2022), U.S. President Joe Biden will likely have to tweak the outline for his speech considering the latest developments in Ukraine,...
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Russia’s War on Ukraine Hits Critical Mineral Supply Chains: A Look at Nickel
While in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, concerns over how the war would impact global supply chains were mostly focused on oil and natural gas, it quickly became apparent that the...
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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Rising Resource Nationalism to Reshape Global...
With a single electric vehicle battery requiring between 10 and 30 pounds of cobalt content, the lustrous, silvery blue, hard ferromagnetic, brittle nickel and copper co-product has long attained...
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The Reorganization of the Post-Cold War Geopolitical Landscape and its Impact...
Pandemic induced supply chain shocks, increasing resource nationalism in various parts of the world, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exactly one month ago have brought the stakes for securing critical...
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The DPA in the Context of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Chinese Strategy –...
Stressing that the “The United States depends on unreliable foreign sources for many of the strategic and critical materials necessary for the clean energy,” specifically for EV and large capacity...
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As Stakes Continue to Get Higher, Critical Minerals Challenge Goes Mainstream...
Supply chain challenges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s war on Ukraine, rising resource nationalism in the southern hemisphere, and now China’s Xi Jinping doubling-down on its...
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Beyond the Rare Earths and Battery Criticals – U.S. Armed Services Committee...
Underscoring the growing awareness that our nation’s overreliance on foreign supplies of critical minerals underpinning 21st century technology stretches beyond the much-discussed Rare Earths and...
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Geopolitics and Resource Realignment – China’s Alumina Exports on the Rise as...
On the heels of the coronavirus pandemic having exposed the West’s overreliance on Chinese supplies of mineral resource supplies, Russia’s war on Ukraine has set off a potential realignment of critical...
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