Minerals
Mineral Depletion: Reserves and Recycling Across 16 Materials
Explore reserves, recycling, dissipation and 100-year extraction scenarios for 16 materials, including copper, lithium, silver and helium.
Metals
Finance
Can Critical Metals (CRML) Build Tanbreez? A Technical and Economic Audit of Its Greenland Rare Earth Mine and $1.85B Romanian Refinery
Not yet: CRML's >99% result is dissolution, not separation, and silica, niobium and hafnium, not heavy rare earths, carry its $2.2B refinery model.
Industry
Inert-Anode Chemistry and the ELYSIS Smelter in Québec: Can Alcoa and Rio Tinto Deliver Carbon-Free Aluminum by 2027
ELYSIS proved inert-anode smelting at 450 kA in 2025. Whether Rio Tinto's 2027 Arvida plant follows is the harder question.