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The 25 pages that link to Critical minerals, each with the reason it gives.

• Renewable energyRelated: Renewable equipment and storage depend on mineral supply chains that create new resource risks.

• Rare-earth elementNarrower topic: Rare earths are often treated as critical because demand is concentrated in strategic technologies.

• Energy transitionRelated: Batteries, motors, and power networks increase demand for minerals with concentrated supply chains.

• MineralRelated: Modern technologies depend on particular mineral resources with concentrated supply chains.

• Energy securityRelated: Clean-energy technologies depend on mineral supply chains that raise security concerns.

• Deep-sea miningNarrower topic: Nodule, sulfide, and crust deposits contain metals commonly classified as critical.

• LithiumNarrower topic: Lithium’s role in batteries makes it a focus of critical-mineral policies.

• BatteryRelated: Battery production depends on materials such as lithium, cobalt, and graphite.

• Copper miningNarrower topic: Copper supply is increasingly discussed alongside minerals needed for electrification and infrastructure.

• Ore depositNarrower topic: Deposits of strategically important minerals shape industrial policy and supply-chain planning.

• Battery recyclingRelated: Recycling can supplement primary supplies of metals used in battery manufacturing.

• ManganeseRelated: Manganese is designated critical in some supply systems because industry depends on concentrated sources.

• Grid energy storageRelated: Some storage technologies rely on mineral supply chains that shape cost and deployment.

• Rare-earth magnetNarrower topic: Rare-earth magnet production depends on materials with concentrated supply chains.

• Rare-earth separationNarrower topic: Rare-earth separation capacity affects access to materials classified as critical.

• Cobalt miningNarrower topic: Cobalt mining is shaped by policies aimed at securing critical-mineral supplies.

• NeodymiumRelated: Neodymium is treated as critical in some jurisdictions because technologies depend on its supply.

• Economic geologyRelated: Economic geology helps assess where critical minerals occur and how supply could be expanded.

• Electric batteryRelated: Some battery chemistries depend on minerals whose extraction and supply chains raise strategic concerns.

• IndiumNarrower topic: Indium’s concentrated, by-product supply makes it vulnerable to shifts in zinc production.

• Manganese noduleNarrower topic: Nodules attract interest as a possible source of metals used in industrial supply chains.

• TelluriumNarrower topic: Tellurium’s concentrated, by-product supply makes it relevant to critical-mineral planning.

• GeoeconomicsRelated: Control of concentrated mineral supplies can confer leverage over strategic industries.

• Energy developmentRelated: Clean-energy expansion increases demand for materials with concentrated and contested supply chains.

• Sustainable energyRelated: Batteries, turbines, and solar panels rely on mineral supply chains with environmental and social costs.