Minerals are back in the news, with President Donald Trump announcing on Wednesday that he’d reached an agreement on a possible deal on Greenland that would include rights to rare earth minerals.
Critical and rare earth minerals underpin technologies propelling the clean energy transition, AI and advanced military hardware, among others, and their production is dominated by China. It controls over 90% of the world’s output of refined rare earths and over 60% of rare earth mining production, according to the International Energy Agency.
Speaking to CNN last week at the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Abigail Hunter, executive director of the Minerals Center at SAFE (Securing America’s…