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Abstract
The importance of critical minerals and the need to expand and diversify critical mineral supply chains has been endorsed by the Federal governments of Australia, Canada, and the United States. The geoscience organizations of Geoscience Australia, the Geological Survey of Canada and the U.S. Geological Survey have created the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative to build a diversified critical minerals industry in Australia, Canada, and the United States by developing a better understanding of known critical mineral resources, determining geologic controls on critical mineral distribution for deposits currently producing byproducts, identifying new sources of supply through critical mineral potential mapping and quantitative mineral assessments, and promoting critical mineral discovery in all three countries.
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- EARTH SCIENCESGEOCHEMISTRYGEOLOGYOre Deposit Petrology
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- critical minerals
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- Australia
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- Canada
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- United States of America
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2020-07-21T23:45:38
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The Fact Sheet informs a range of non-specialist stakeholders about the collaborative critical minerals mapping initiative undertaken by the Australian, Canadian and United States geological agencies in support of critical minerals discovery.
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The Fact Sheet was developed as part of a critical minerals collaboration between the United States Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada and Geoscience Australia. The United States Geological Survey published the document as part of their Fact Sheet series on behalf of the three geoscience agencies.
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