Awareness of Associations Between Minerals Could Unlock Keys to Addressing Critical-Metals Supply
The world stands at the precipice of an event that threatens to significantly impact human society by disrupting the natural, social and economic systems it relies on to thrive. With the effects of climate change becoming frighteningly clearer by the day, most countries have pledged to transition from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind and geothermal power. However, the global-energy transition will have to overcome an issue that could prevent many nations from achieving their green-energy goals in time: a shortage of critical minerals. Critical minerals are metallic and nonmetallic elements that have…