In 2022, magnesium oxide had the largest reserve volume of any critical mineral in the United States, at 35 million metric tons. That year, zinc was the second leading critical mineral in the U.S. based on reserves, at 6.6 million metric tons. Critical minerals are essential for the transition to a lower carbon energy system. Consequently, critical minerals have become essential to the growth and technological development of the U.S.
Reserves of critical minerals in the United States in 2023, by commodity
(in metric tons)
*palladium, platinum, iridium, osmium, rhodium, and ruthenium; reserve figures were not available for all of the critical minerals in the U.S.
Supplementary notes
The United States Government has defined 50 minerals as critical: aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rare earth elements, rhodium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.
Reserve volume figures were not available for the following critical minerals from the source, either because the U.S. does not contain reserves of that mineral or because the data was not available: aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, cerium, cesium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium (the source provided platinum group metal reserves as a whole instead), praseodymium, samarium, scandium, terbium, thulium, tungsten, ytterbium, and yttrium.
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US Geological Survey. (January 31, 2024). Reserves of critical minerals in the United States in 2023, by commodity (in metric tons) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1475452/reserves-of-critical-minerals-in-the-united-states-by-commodity/
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