{"id":408561,"date":"2025-10-16T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408561"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:30:42","slug":"the-slowly-mounting-mineral-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408561","title":{"rendered":"The Slowly Mounting Mineral Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"479\" data-attachment-id=\"408563\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=408563\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?fit=1178%2C780&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1178,780\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?fit=723%2C479&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?resize=723%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A variety of critical minerals in different shapes and colors, stacked in piles with the text 'critical minerals' displayed prominently.\" class=\"wp-image-408563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMQo_xoJbT8C8dGFE2w8YBc0Qi71B42cUDYiZmAsiakbidCDOwSch2JDTVGnDgX-jdjIMqgVMJ1Q6QeL3CfAdi5BJixp8X8o_4bQjetqkYfUbCoTZgnZMIPG8ilZi7a-1.jpeg?w=1178&amp;ssl=1 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/10\/14\/the-slowly-mounting-mineral-shock\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/portia_roberts\/\">Portia Roberts<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/peter_bryant\/\">Peter Bryant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note:&nbsp;You\u2019re Invited:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/energyrealities.typeform.com\/to\/gNMcVoyQ\">NCEA\u2019s Critique of IEA\u2019s Critical Minerals Outlook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s&nbsp;latest squeeze on&nbsp;mineral exports\u2013\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-xi-china-tariffs-rare-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and&nbsp;Washington\u2019s threat of retaliation\u2013\u2013<\/a>ends&nbsp;any illusion that critical&nbsp;minerals are a niche matter.&nbsp;They are the scaffolding of modern&nbsp;society.&nbsp;A nearly bewildering array of minerals are essential for everything&nbsp;from defense technologies&nbsp;to EV dreams to the great race for \u201cdominance\u201d in artificial intelligence.&nbsp;Neither&nbsp;America, nor our allies,&nbsp;extract and&nbsp;refine enough key minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States depends on imports for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/clareo.com\/reimagining-tailings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most&nbsp;(in some&nbsp;cases all)&nbsp;key&nbsp;minerals<\/a>&nbsp;including&nbsp;copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and&nbsp;especially the 17 vital&nbsp;rare earth elements. Without foreign suppliers, we face a shock&nbsp;of varying degrees, from serious to catastrophic,&nbsp;across all industries&nbsp;and services. COVID-driven supply chain disruptions provided a glimpse&nbsp;of what could come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Energy Agency (IEA)&nbsp;is one of a handful of non-aligned entities that&nbsp;looks at&nbsp;and advises about&nbsp;global critical minerals. Unfortunately, it appears that the IEA either ignores or is na\u00efve about market-shaping&nbsp;realities, including&nbsp;those&nbsp;put&nbsp;in play last week&nbsp;by China. This matters because&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/about\/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEA\u2019s genesis was the 1970s oil shock<\/a>, tasked with brokering facts to&nbsp;anticipate, if not&nbsp;prevent&nbsp;another&nbsp;such&nbsp;catastrophic event in the future.&nbsp;Instead,&nbsp;IEA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Global Critical Minerals Outlook&nbsp;2025&nbsp;<\/em>should earn a Pollyanna award; it&nbsp;assumes&nbsp;the kinds of&nbsp;needed cooperation, innovation, and capital flows are&nbsp;happening&nbsp;or will. If policymakers&nbsp;mistake that analysis&nbsp;as a blueprint,&nbsp;or as a rationale for inaction or action\u2013\u2013as was done&nbsp;by&nbsp;the Biden&nbsp;Administration to&nbsp;justify&nbsp;the&nbsp;LNG-export&nbsp;pause\u2014we&nbsp;could well&nbsp;learn what mineral scarcity looks like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andamanpartners.com\/2025\/10\/chinas-entrenched-role-as-the-worlds-leading-supplier-of-mining-equipment-and-consumables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China&nbsp;is, as is now well-known,<\/a>&nbsp;the dominant energy minerals market-shaper. It doesn\u2019t merely mine and refine; it finances, secures offtakes, standardizes chemistries, and wields export controls.&nbsp;It commands a variety of chokepoints that&nbsp;differ for each mineral.&nbsp;In other words, it wields&nbsp;a monopolistic-like ability to manipulate markets.&nbsp;Dominance in the activities that make minerals useful neutralizes efforts to diversify the&nbsp;sources of various minerals.&nbsp;It doesn\u2019t matter if a new mine opens in the US, or a different hemisphere or continent if one country\u2019s investment&nbsp;can&nbsp;control a significant proportion of supply. And as a result&nbsp;China can \u201cdump\u201d so much supply, long enough, into the market to collapse prices that bankrupt competition, cause unprofitable mines to be mothballed, or make planned projects infeasible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, new mines, smelters, and refineries are needed. But all face a steep uphill battle for multiple reasons, including what the IEA correctly calls \u201cabove-ground risks\u201d\u2014what the mining industry terms \u201cthe social license to operate\u201d (SLO). These issues are really opportunities rather than risks, and their importance cannot be overstated. (Although the IEA&nbsp;<em>Outlook<\/em>&nbsp;understates them). If not properly engaged, dealings with local communities can stall or prevent permitting, or even slow or stop development. This ultimately adds costs, further advantaging China\u2019s producers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another overlooked aspect is that it often&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/market-intelligence\/en\/news-insights\/research\/average-lead-time-almost-18-years-for-mines-started-in-2020-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">takes decades<\/a>&nbsp;for new sites to&nbsp;begin operations. Refining&nbsp;is an inherently energy-intensive and chemical-centric industry, a frankly dirty business. Western firms, and regulations, have long exercised due caution. But it&nbsp;will likely take a great deal of innovation and intense investment for new facilities to meet&nbsp;ever-more&nbsp;stringent environmental standards and costs that don\u2019t again advantage China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On top of that,&nbsp;an in-the-weeds nuance that is utterly critical: the IEA underplays&nbsp;the long-run decline in&nbsp;ore grades, i.e., the share of the rock that contains the mineral.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clareo.com\/the-copper-famine-a-case-for-downstream-leadership-in-the-copper-value-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Existing mines, particularly copper,<\/a>&nbsp;will require&nbsp;ever&nbsp;more energy and water per ton of metal,&nbsp;creating&nbsp;more tailings&nbsp;waste to manage, more capital expenditure, and&nbsp;thus&nbsp;more delays. Efficiency and recycling&nbsp;can\u2019t come close to&nbsp;doing&nbsp;enough to&nbsp;bridge&nbsp;the looming gap between supply and demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oil shocks cause price leaps, lines at gas stations, political fallout. Mineral shocks are slow burns, until they\u2019re not. They might&nbsp;initially&nbsp;surface as longer delivery times, stalled grid projects, costlier&nbsp;products\u2013\u2013or&nbsp;some&nbsp;with missing&nbsp;features.&nbsp;But if mineral shortages continue, if (limited) stockpiles are exhausted, markets unavoidably face price shocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the United States, the&nbsp;solution has long been known&nbsp;and&nbsp;remains&nbsp;urgent: rebuild end-to-end capability&nbsp;at home and simultaneously, vital for velocity,&nbsp;work&nbsp;with allies (and other friendly resource-endowed countries) on such key areas as geology, mining, refining, and component manufacturing. Streamline permitting without diluting environmental standards. Use different tools such as targeted offtakes, public-private finance and defense authorities to anchor new refineries and processing hubs. And level with voters: everything&nbsp;starts with mining (or&nbsp;farming). If we won\u2019t mine at home or overseas with trusted partners, we will&nbsp;continue to face economic and security&nbsp;fragility\u2014on terms set elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IEA was founded to help prevent energy shocks, not promote policies that make them more likely. In minerals, models that minimize or ignore chokepoints and social license realities will steer the world into the very emergencies we want to avoid. We don\u2019t need aspirational scenarios. We need mineral realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Portia Roberts is Policy Director for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/energyanalytics.org\/\">National Center for Energy Analytics.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Peter Bryant is Chairman of Clareo and Key Minerals Forum.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s\u00a0latest squeeze on\u00a0mineral exports\u2013\u2013and\u00a0Washington\u2019s threat of retaliation\u2013\u2013ends\u00a0any illusion that critical\u00a0minerals are a niche matter.\u00a0They are the scaffolding of modern\u00a0society.\u00a0A nearly bewildering array of minerals are essential for everything\u00a0from defense technologies\u00a0to EV dreams to the great race for \u201cdominance\u201d in artificial intelligence.\u00a0Neither\u00a0America, nor our allies,\u00a0extract and\u00a0refine enough key minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":408563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the critical mineral supply crisis impacting defense, EVs, and AI. 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