{
  "event": {
    "id": "us-critical-minerals-list-2025",
    "date": "2025-11-07",
    "jurisdiction": "us",
    "issuingBody": "USGS / Department of the Interior",
    "titleOriginal": "Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals",
    "titleOriginalLang": "en",
    "titleEn": "Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals",
    "titleEnSource": "na",
    "documentNumber": "FR Doc. 2025-19813 (Federal Register, 7 Nov 2025)",
    "policyStatus": "in_force",
    "mechanism": [
      "designation"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "rare-earth-elements",
      "dysprosium",
      "terbium",
      "neodymium",
      "praseodymium",
      "gallium",
      "germanium",
      "graphite",
      "antimony",
      "tungsten",
      "lithium",
      "cobalt",
      "nickel"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "defense",
      "semiconductor",
      "energy",
      "battery",
      "industrial"
    ],
    "summary": "The USGS, through the Department of the Interior, finalized the 2025 List of Critical Minerals: 60 minerals in total, with ten added in 2025 (boron, copper, lead, metallurgical coal, phosphate, potash, rhenium, silicon, silver and uranium) on the basis of new data, public feedback and interagency recommendations. Designation drives permitting priority, funding eligibility and supply-chain attention; it is not itself an export control.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "The principal US instrument is designation, paired with funding and offtake — the mirror image of China's control-and-license posture. Several 2025 additions (notably copper, metallurgical coal and uranium) reflect interagency and executive direction that goes beyond the USGS quantitative screening methodology, signalling a more security-driven definition of 'critical'.",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-doi-press-2025",
      "src-usgs-news-2025",
      "src-fedreg-usgs-2025"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": "2025-11-07",
      "discoveredAt": null,
      "verifiedAt": null,
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [
    {
      "id": "fc-us-burgum-resilience",
      "eventId": "us-critical-minerals-list-2025",
      "actor": "us",
      "category": [
        "supply_chain_resilience",
        "economic_security"
      ],
      "quoteOriginal": "By working with the mineral industry and state partners, we are ensuring that the minerals powering our energy, defense, and technology supply chains are mined and processed in the United States.",
      "quoteEn": "By working with the mineral industry and state partners, we are ensuring that the minerals powering our energy, defense, and technology supply chains are mined and processed in the United States.",
      "quoteEnSource": "na",
      "sourceId": "src-doi-press-2025",
      "notes": "Attributed to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in the Department of the Interior press release announcing the final 2025 list."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-doi-press-2025",
      "title": "Interior Department releases final 2025 List of Critical Minerals",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of the Interior",
      "url": "https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-final-2025-list-critical-minerals",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-11-07",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-06-10",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Department of the Interior press release announcing the final 2025 list; source of the attributed Secretary Burgum quotation."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-usgs-news-2025",
      "title": "Interior Department releases final 2025 List of Critical Minerals",
      "publisher": "U.S. Geological Survey",
      "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/news/science-snippet/interior-department-releases-final-2025-list-critical-minerals",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-11-07",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-06-10",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "USGS announcement of the final 2025 list (60 minerals; ten added in 2025)."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-fedreg-usgs-2025",
      "title": "Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals (Federal Register)",
      "publisher": "U.S. Geological Survey / Federal Register",
      "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/07/2025-19813/final-2025-list-of-critical-minerals",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-11-07",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-06-10",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Canonical Federal Register notice (FR Doc. 2025-19813) for the final 2025 list."
    }
  ]
}