Areas with potential for key critical minerals in microchips
Detailed Description
Map of areas with potential for key critical minerals in microchips.
The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) identifies areas with potential mineral systems that may contain critical minerals and collects focused data within these areas. The areas below have potential for key critical minerals needed to manufacture microchips - tiny pieces of circuity that are essential in many kinds of advanced technologies, from cell phones to satellites and AI supercomputers.
This map was made using this data release.
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Public Domain.