New Critical Minerals List Published

The Department of the Interior, through the U.S. Geological Survey, published the final 2025 List of Critical Minerals, outlining 60 minerals vital to the U.S. economy and national security that face potential risks from disrupted supply chains. The final List adds 10 new minerals—boron, copper, lead, metallurgical coal, phosphate, potash, rhenium, silicon, silver, and uranium—based on new data, public feedback, and interagency recommendations. The 2025 List highlights rare earth elements, a subset of critical minerals whose supply disruption would impose the highest cost on the U.S. economy, which are essential to technologies like smartphones, hard drives, and advanced defense systems. In 2024, the U.S. imported 80% of the rare earth elements it used. 

Aluminum

Antimony

Arsenic

Barite

Beryllium

Bismuth

Boron

Cerium

Cesium

Chromium

Cobalt

Copper

Dysprosium

Erbium

Europium

Fluorspar

Gadolinium

Gallium

Germanium

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Hafnium

Holmium

Indium

Iridium

Lanthanum

Lead

Lithium

Lutetium

Magnesium

Manganese

Metallurgical Coal

Neodymium

Nickel

Niobium

Palladium

Phosphate

Platinum

Potash

Rhenium

Rhodium

Rubidium

Ruthenium

Samarium

Scandium

Silicon

Silver

Tantalum

Tellurium

Terbium

Thulium

Tin

Titanium

Tungsten

Uranium

Vanadium

Ytterbium

Yttrium

Zinc

Zirconium