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The Week That’s Done: China’s industrial strategy

March 19, 2023

We give you a blueprint of China's industrial strategy and will a Guinean iron ore mine help China slash dependence on Australian imports? Meanwhile, the EU unveils a critical minerals plan just as China tightens its grips on cobalt and lithium, Black Sea Grain deal uncertainty, and trade controls served two ways.

2023-03-19T11:26:03-04:00#critical minerals #iron ore #little giants #single champions #trade controls |
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  • China gallium production China gallium production

The US is Vulnerable in Critical Minerals. But There Is a Solution.

February 26, 2023

The US is at least 50 percent import dependent for 26 out of the 32 minerals that the 2022 US Geological Survey publishes data on, or 81.25 percent. Of those, China is the top source of US imports for 11, or 42.3 percent. Gallium underscores how severe this dynamic is.

2023-02-26T10:05:57-05:00#critical minerals #upstream |
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  • phoenix tailings phoenix tailings

Deglobalization Round-Up: January 27

January 27, 2023

Slumping demand for Chinese goods hits international shipping, Apple moves away from China, and Senate legislation would ban Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to China. Phoenix Tailings's co-founder, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, and India's industry minister say they're ready for reshoring.

2023-01-27T17:37:40-05:00#critical minerals #Deglobalization #Phoenix Tailings #Russia-Ukraine |
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We Can’t Build a Clean Economy Without Investment in Critical Minerals

By Fred DuVal
January 5, 2023

Accelerated production of copper, and other critical minerals, is necessary to make clean energy options economically viable. Otherwise, the gap between supply and demand will fuel further price increases on all critical minerals – which will make the energy transition more expensive and less competitive.

2023-01-06T10:05:43-05:00#Arizona #Copper #critical minerals |
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The Week That’s Done: November 6

November 6, 2022

Beijing completes its space station and we benchmark the US-China space race – while the Fed keeps hiking, Maersk adds to recession fears, the Black Sea grain deal falters, and Canada orders Chinese lithium companies to divest. Plus: an OPEC for battery minerals?

2022-11-06T08:08:01-05:00#China #critical minerals #oil and gas #space |
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  • US manufacturing stalls US manufacturing stalls

The Week That’s Done: October 30

October 30, 2022

US critical mineral capacity remains critically inadequate, China buys up Indonesia’s cobalt, and what are the prospects for made in USA uranium? Plus, US GDP grows, but pain under the surface, tech players crumble, and manufacturing stalls.

2022-10-30T11:30:37-04:00#critical minerals #Indonesia #uranium #US manufacturing |
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  • China gallium production China gallium production

The US Is Vulnerable in Critical Minerals. But There Is a Solution.

By Force Distance Times
October 24, 2022

The US is at least 50 percent import dependent for 26 out of the 32 minerals that the 2022 US Geological Survey publishes data on, or 81.25 percent. Of those, China is the top source of US imports for 11, or 42.3 percent. Gallium underscores how severe this dynamic is.

2022-10-25T13:42:12-04:00#critical minerals #gallium #upstream |
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The UK’s New Critical Minerals Strategy Represents a Comeback for Industrial Policy

By Chris Cash
July 28, 2022

The UK government is now demonstrating that it is ready to move, and in lockstep with allies, in setting out the steps to maximize what the UK produces across the value chain and to reduce strategic dependence on China.

2022-08-24T09:16:07-04:00#China #critical minerals #UK |
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We Can’t Build a Clean Economy without Investment in Critical Minerals

By Fred DuVal
June 23, 2022

Accelerated production of copper, and other critical minerals, is necessary to make clean energy options economically viable. Otherwise, the gap between supply and demand will fuel further price increases on all critical minerals – which will make the energy transition more expensive and less competitive.

2022-08-02T14:26:46-04:00#Arizona #clean energy #Copper #critical minerals |
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Factors Briefing: Week of May 16

May 21, 2022

In a new era of shortage, adjustments are being made: Food nationalism rears its head in India, while in critical minerals automakers look to platinum over palladium; meanwhile, the US fails to incentivize greater oil and gas production while China scoops up Russia's at bargain basement prices

2022-09-26T12:40:06-04:00#agriculture #critical minerals #oil and gas #semiconductors |
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Factors Briefing: Week of May 9

May 14, 2022

It's shortage everywhere: In agriculture, wheat is the latest victim, threatening tomorrow's food supply while a baby formula shortage wreaks havoc today; meanwhile, China eyes the aluminum vacuum and a South Korea x Canada collab tries to shore up tungsten dependencies.

2022-09-26T12:40:37-04:00#agriculture #China #critical minerals #Russia-Ukraine #Supply |
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Factors Briefing: Week of April 18

April 24, 2022

Indonesia works to climb the nickel value chain while Mexico nationalizes its lithium reserves; fertilizer shortage injects new, cross-cutting threats into the global food market; and nuclear energy comes back into favor -- but how to source the uranium?

2022-09-26T12:41:21-04:00#agriculture #critical minerals #Energy #Indonesia #Mexico |
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Markets Briefing: Week of April 4

April 8, 2022

Canada wakes up -- kind of, and slowly -- to the risks of foreign investment in strategic areas; elsewhere, it's EVs, EVs, and EVs, but without commensurate attention to the upstream

2022-05-05T19:49:00-04:00#automotive #Canada #critical minerals |
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Factors Briefing: Week of March 28

April 1, 2022

The Biden Administration's SPR release fails to address supply gaps -- but invocation of the Defense Production Act for critical minerals maybe does; Canada's abundant resource supply pushes it to the big stage in a new geopolitical environment

2022-09-26T12:43:14-04:00#Canada #critical minerals #Energy #Supply |
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