Abigail Hunter, executive director of SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, praised the new methodology for accounting for how “today’s mining, processing, and advanced manufacturing investments and policies determine tomorrow’s mineral supplies.”
“We’ve long encouraged the federal agencies to explore forward-looking assessments and enthusiastically applaud this expanded consideration of how trade disruptions, price changes, and single points of failure for critical minerals could impact the U.S. economy,” Hunter said in a statement.
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