Reality bites critical-minerals hopes

The Australian Financial Review
Yesterday

Like Australia, Ukraine, Greenland and the Democratic Republic of Congo are among countries with large supplies of the critical minerals and rare earths that offer an alternative to China’s dangerous dominance of the market.

But unlike Australia, Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo are devastated by savage conflict, while Greenland’s deposits are encapsulated in ice and its population opposed to swapping Denmark’s control for that of the US. Even if the minerals are in the ground, there’s no guarantee they will ever be viable to develop at scale.

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