Canada’s Breakthrough Critical Minerals Strategy In 2022, Canada announced that it would support sustainable production of critical minerals. As a reminder, critical minerals are the commodities that underpin the “clean transition.” Lithium, which is used in electric-vehicle batteries; copper, ...
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...
Chemicals & Resources› Mining, Metals & Minerals Critical mineral mining in Canada - statistics & facts Choose a region: Canada As of 2022, Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy has defined a list of 31 critical minerals. For nine of those critical minerals, Canada is among the world’s ...
“There is no energy transition without critical minerals,” Wilkinson told reporters. “Critical minerals are the building blocks for the green and digital economy.” The announcement came three days after Wilkinson published Canada’s critical mineral strategy, which aims to expand Ca...
One of the Pan-Canadian Initiatives identified in theCMMP’s Action Planis the push to promote innovation of all types in the industry. Not unlike the US’s critical minerals strategy, this could meanmining tailingsorextracting value from waste materials, developing improved recovery processes, or...
“There is no energy transition without critical minerals,” Wilkinson told reporters. “Critical minerals are the building blocks for the green and digital economy.” The announcement came three days after Wilkinson published Canada’s critical mineral strategy, which aims to expand...
The Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy highlights the importance of mining and resources to the nation’s global competitiveness and prosperity. The industry accounts for 626,000 direct and indirect jobs and is the largest employer for Indigenous Peoples and 19% of Canada’s total domestic exports,...
Canada’s draft critical minerals strategy is focusing on six minerals and metals the federal government has decided have the greatest potential for economic growth and employment opportunities: lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, copper and rare-earth elements. ...
The increased demand for critical minerals — driven by the pick-up of the energy transition and increased electrification around the world — would likely cause a gap between supply and demand. And to overcome these challenges and support increased demand, goals mining and metals companies should ...
The landscape around this is evolving quickly, especially given recent incentives and investments such as the critical minerals exploration tax credit and the announcement of CA$3.8 billion over eight years to support Canada’s critical minerals strategy. While navigating the range of incentives ...