Mineral Commodity Summaries 2014 Minerals Make
Executive Summary Critical minerals and materials are used in many of their supply chains are essential to the economic prosperity and national defense of the United States. Of the 35 mineral commodities identified as critical in the list1 (bauxite), antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cesium, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar.Each mineral commodity chapter of the 2021 edition of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Commodity Summaries (MCS) includes information on events, trends, and issues for each mineral commodity as well as discussions and tabular presentations on domestic industry structure, Government programs, tariffs, 5-year salient statistics, and world production and resources.