Useful External Resources and Links

U.S. Government

The White House

• Executive Orders
  • Executive Order 14017, America’s Supply Chains, February 24, 2021
  • Executive Order 13953, Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain from Reliance on Critical Minerals from Foreign Adversaries and Supporting the Domestic Mining and Processing Industries, September 30, 2020
  • Executive Order 13817, A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals, December 20, 2017
• National Science & Technology Council (NSTC)
  • Assessment of Critical Minerals: Updated Application of Screening Methodology, February 2018

U.S. Department of Defense

• Office of Industrial Policy (OIP), Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States, September 2018
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Strategic Materials

U.S. Department of Interior

• Office of the Secretary, Final List of Critical Minerals 2018
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  • USGS National Minerals Information Center
  • USGS Critical Minerals Review 2019
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Energy and Minerals

U.S. Department of State

• Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR)
  • ENR Energy Resource Governance Initiative (ERGI) Fact Sheet
  • ENR ERGI FAQs

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• DOE Critical Minerals and Materials Strategy
• Office of Fossil Energy (FE)/Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management, Division of Minerals Sustainability
• Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Critical Materials Hub
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • Advanced thermoplastics for wind
  • Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
  • Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center (CEMAC)/Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) global clean energy manufacturing benchmarks
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
  • Battery manufacturing cost estimation
  • Closing the loop on battery recycling 

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

• An Overview of Rare Earth Elements and Related Issues for Congress, November 24, 2020
• Policy Topics and Background Related to Mining on Federal Lands, March 19, 2020
• Critical Minerals and U.S. Public Policy, June 28, 2019
• Trade Dispute with China and Rare Earth Elements, June 28, 2019
• China’s Mineral Industry and U.S. Access to Strategic and Critical Minerals: Issues for Congress, March 20, 2015
• Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain, December 16, 2013

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Hardrock Mining: Trends in U.S. Reliance on Imports for Selected Minerals, April 30, 2019
• Advanced Technologies: Strengthened Federal Approach Needed to Help Identify and Mitigate Supply Risks for Critical Raw Materials, September 7, 2016

Other External Research Reports and Materials

• The World Bank Group – Extractive Industries
• Oil, gas, and mining: a sourcebook for understanding the extractive industries, 2017
• Climate-Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action Program
  • Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition, 2020
  • The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future, June 2017
• Mining Sector Diagnostics toolkit

The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology’s Center for Energy Economics

• The [Energy] Webs We Weave by Michelle Michot Foss, UTA/BEG/CEE, November 2011
• Battery Materials Supply Chains, UTA/BEG/CEE, November 2015
• Snapshot: Electric Vehicle Diffusion and Raw Materials Supply Chains, UTA/BEG/CEE, November 2016
• Battery Materials Value Chains, by Rahul Verma, et al., UTA/BEG/CEE, 2016
• Snapshot: Eyes Are on Cobalt, UTA/BEG/CEE, December 2017

MIT Energy Initiative

• Learning Only Buys You So Much: Practical Limits On Battery Price Reduction, February 2019
• The Future of Solar Energy, 2015
• Metals Production Requirements for Rapid PV Deployment, 2015 

Others

• U.S. Grid Energy Storage Fact Sheet, Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan (update)
• Grid-scale Energy Storage Systems and Technologies, Timothy C. Allison, et al., Southwest Research Institute, Gas/Electric Partnership, February 2019
• Energy Critical Elements: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies, APS/MRS 2011
• Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy, NAS 2008
• Facing the Hard Truths About Energy, a report of the National Petroleum Council, 2007
  
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