Critical minerals in the United States

Statistics report on critical mineral mining in the United States

Critical minerals in the United States

This report presents a selection of statistics about critical minerals in the United States. An overview of U.S. critical minerals is provided, along with statistics on the mine production of the U.S.' critical minerals, mining projects for critical minerals, and the import reliance on the critical minerals that the U.S. does not produce domestically.

The United States 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, manganese, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.

Table of contents

Overview

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  • Premium Statistic Estimated global market value of selected critical materials 2027-2030
  • Premium Statistic Global critical minerals production share 2023, by majority producing country
  • Premium Statistic Global critical mineral mine production volume 2022, by leading owner country
  • Premium Statistic Electric vehicle and critical mineral funding in the U.S. 2022, by initiative
  • Premium Statistic Critical minerals reserves in the U.S. 2023, by commodity
  • Premium Statistic Critical minerals production in the U.S. 2022, by commodity
  • Premium Statistic U.S. consumption volume of critical minerals 2023, by type

Battery minerals

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  • Premium Statistic Lithium production in the U.S. 1995-2023
  • Premium Statistic Potential volume of lithium carbonate equivalent U.S., by project
  • Premium Statistic Secondary production of cobalt in the U.S. 2010-2023
  • Premium Statistic U.S. cobalt import share 2019-2022, by country of origin

Base metals

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  • Premium Statistic Primary aluminum production in the U.S. 2010-2023
  • Premium Statistic Nickel production in the U.S. 2014-2023
  • Premium Statistic Titanium mine production in the U.S. 2015-2022
  • Basic Statistic Zinc mine production in the U.S. 2016-2023

Metals

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  • Premium Statistic Secondary chromium production volume in the U.S. 2015-2023
  • Premium Statistic Germanium production volume in the U.S. 2015-2022
  • Premium Statistic Secondary magnesium production volume in the U.S. 2018-2023
  • Premium Statistic Platinum mine production in the U.S. 2010-2023
  • Basic Statistic Palladium mine production in the U.S. 2010-2023
  • Basic Statistic Production volume of tellurium in the U.S. 2016-2022

Minerals

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  • Basic Statistic U.S. barite production volume 2011-2019
  • Basic Statistic U.S. beryl production volume 2015-2022
  • Premium Statistic Rare earths production in the U.S. 2012-2023, by type

Import reliance

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  • Premium Statistic U.S. import reliance on critical minerals 2023
  • Basic Statistic U.S.: share of critical mineral imports from China 2018-2021, by commodity
  • Premium Statistic Titanium net import reliance in the U.S. 2017-2023
  • Basic Statistic Cobalt net import reliance in the U.S. 2017-2023
  • Premium Statistic Lithium net import reliance in the U.S. 2017-2023
  • Premium Statistic Distribution of U.S. imports of gallium 2019-2022, by country of origin
  • Premium Statistic Distribution of U.S. niobium imports 2019-2022, by type and source country
  • Premium Statistic Distribution of U.S. tantalum imports 2019-2022, by type and source country

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