Active Coal Mines Could Facilitate Green-Energy Revolution
As the use of renewable energy grows, the demand for critical minerals continues to increase. Minerals such as nickel, lithium, copper and cobalt, among other rare earth elements, are crucial for renewable energy installations and storage solutions. The production of these minerals is limited as current supply chains are already struggling with demand. As a result, prices of these minerals are soaring. This highlights a significant economic opportunity to create new supply chains for these minerals. America is geologically rich in various critical minerals and is now working to build its own domestic supply chains to help meet its own…