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April 28, 2019

China’s domestic and foreign influence in the global cobalt supply chain China’s domestic and foreign influence in the global cobalt supply chain

In addition to increasing interest in the supply risk of minerals produced in China, there is also concern that China’s efforts to mitigate mineral supply risk—through foreign direct investment—may limit mineral availability for other countries in the short-term (due to production capacity constraints). However, little is publicly known about the quantity of global mineral production...

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Andrew L. Gulley, Erin McCullough, Kim Shedd

Mineral Resources Program, National Minerals Information Center

March 1, 2019

Mineral resource of the month: Garnet Mineral resource of the month: Garnet

Garnet is the general name given to a group of complex silicate minerals, all with isometric crystal structure and similar properties and chemical composition. The most common garnet minerals are classified into three groups: the aluminum-garnet group, the chromium-garnet group and the iron-garnet group. Worldwide, garnet resources are large and occur in a wide variety of rocks...

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Kenneth C. Curry

National Minerals Information Center

January 1, 2019

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019 Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019

Published on an annual basis, this report is the earliest Government publication to furnish estimates covering nonfuel mineral industry data and is available at https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/. Data sheets contain information on the domestic industry structure, Government programs, tariffs, and 5-year salient statistics for more than 90 individual minerals and materials.

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Mineral Resources Program, National Minerals Information Center

July 18, 2018