Areas with potential subsurface mineral resources required for high-capacity batteries

Areas with potential subsurface mineral resources required for high-capacity batteries (cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and rare earth elements) across the conterminous United States.  (Source: Dicken, C.L., and Hammarstrom, J.M., 2020, GIS for focus areas of potential domestic resources of 11 critical minerals—aluminum, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, platinum group elements, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin, titanium, and tungsten: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95CO8LR)

An updated version of this map created from a more recent data release can now be found here: Areas with potential for key critical minerals in high-capacity batteries | U.S. Geological Survey.