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Final List of Critical Minerals 2018

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Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior / Federal Register

OfficialenPublished 18 May 2018Accessed 12 Aug 2026

Canonical Federal Register notice, 83 FR 23295 (FR Doc. 2018-10667). Read in full 2026-08-12 via the Federal Register full-text endpoint (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2018/05/18/2018-10667.txt), which serves automated clients where the HTML page does not. Source of the verbatim 35-mineral list, the SUMMARY framing anchor, and the authority line "Authority: E.O. 13817, 82 FR 60835 (December 26, 2017)."

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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/18/2018-10667/final-list-of-critical-minerals-2018

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  1. Final List of Critical Minerals 2018

    evt-us-cm-list-2018

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  1. This dependency of the United States on foreign sources creates a strategic vulnerability for both its economy and military to adverse foreign government action, natural disaster, and other events that can disrupt supply of these key minerals.

    fc-us-cm2018-vulnerability

    • Original framing quotation

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  1. United States

    us

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