Canada’s Critical Minerals The list, developed by Natural Resources Canada in cooperation with a team representing various federal, provincial, and territorial entities, is an essential step toward putting the nation in a position to meet the goals set out by the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan...
The list includes 31 minerals. The goal of the program is to stimulate growth in the critical minerals space. Canada aims to boost the domestic value chain, from exploration to production and recycling, and become a supplier of critical minerals to the United States and other allies. (The...
have made sizable investments in recent decades and remain important shareholders in Canadian miners that produce metals on Canada's critical minerals list. Jiangxi Copper Co. Ltd. has an 18.45% stake in copper-miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd., C...
On Friday, December 9, 2022, the federal government released the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy (the Strategy), a comprehensive multi-disciplinary government policy package designed to facilitate increased production and processing of critical minerals vital to the green and digital economy. The gove...
Major countries such as the US, Canada, Australia and European nations have created a list of critical minerals that are either essential to energy transition or deemed important to the domestic economy and whose supply is seen as high risk. They are also developing road maps to enable the res...
Canada recently added an additional three minerals—high-purity iron, phosphorous and silicon metal—to its Critical Minerals List, bringing the total to 34. Canada released its first Critical Minerals List in March 2021 with a commitment to review the minerals identified as critical every three yea...
critical minerals businesses will face high levels of scrutiny under Canada’s foreign investment review regime (see question 1.3 above). The critical minerals list includes 31 minerals (aluminium, antimony, bismuth, caesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite, helium, ...
While Mexico, the world's leading silver producer, lacks a public policy, Canada's main silver miners are pushing for the metal to be included on the list of critical minerals. A new list of what Mexico’s partner in the USMCA trade agreement considers critical minerals will be publi...
While miners will need to position themselves strategically and act quickly to stay ahead of the changing market dynamics, they’ll also be looking to the policy environment in Canada, which will play a significant role helping companies make the most of the critical minerals opportunity. Momentum...
He said “the emerging reality for all of us” is that when it comes to critical mineral supply chains we “actually do need to be considering where these minerals are coming from, and how we can actually work with other democratic countries to ensure security of supply.” ...