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Strategically ranked minerals
Earthern Strategic Scores weigh supply concentration, substitutability, demand growth and jurisdictional risk.
Neodymium
A light rare earth element and the backbone of high-performance NdFeB permanent magnets.
Dysprosium
A heavy rare earth added to magnets to preserve performance at high operating temperatures.
Copper
Copper is the primary conductor of the electrified economy, used wherever electricity or heat must move efficiently.
Terbium
A scarce heavy rare earth used in high-temperature magnets and phosphors.
Gallium
A soft metal recovered as a by-product of aluminium refining, essential to compound semiconductors.
Uranium
The fuel of nuclear fission and the densest practical energy source available to civilisation.
Highest-scoring projects
Project Scores combine resource quality, economics, jurisdiction, infrastructure and execution readiness.
Greenbushes
The largest and highest-grade hard-rock lithium mine in the world.
Bayan Obo
The largest rare earth deposit in the world, mined alongside iron ore.
Salar de Atacama
The highest-grade and most productive lithium brine resource in the world.
McArthur River
The largest high-grade uranium mine in the world, in the Athabasca Basin.
Escondida
The largest copper mine in the world by output, operating in the Atacama Desert since 1990.
Ganzhou Separation Complex
The centre of global heavy rare earth separation capacity.
Latest intelligence
Antimony repricing continues as western supply stays scarce
Export controls have moved antimony from an industrial afterthought to one of the most sharply repriced strategic minerals.
Data centre build-out is quietly reshaping the copper balance
Hyperscale campuses consume copper at a rate that grid planners are only beginning to model. The result is a demand stream that did not exist in most published copper forecasts five years ago.
Heavy rare earth separation, not mining, remains the bottleneck
Western rare earth strategy has focused on deposits. The constraint has always been further down the chain.
Lithium oversupply meets a structurally growing demand base
Price weakness has curtailed marginal supply while underlying consumption continues to expand.
Gallium controls expose AI hardware to a by-product supply chain
Gallium has no dedicated mines. That is precisely the problem.
Uranium supply gap widens as reactor demand firms
Years of underinvestment in mine supply meet renewed reactor demand, including from compute.