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Early Prioritization
Given the urgent need to develop Canada’s critical minerals supply chains, our research suggests that early efforts should focus on the following six minerals: lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, copper, and rare-earth elements.Footnote 1
These minerals have been selected because they offer the greatest economic growth and employment opportunities across the country, including for Indigenous peoples, along the entire value chain (exploration, mining, processing, manufacturing, and recycling). In addition, these six minerals support the manufacture of value-added products, including clean technologies, information/communication technology, and advanced manufacturing.
Opportunities also exist to ramp up production and processing of additional minerals for industrial value chains that are strategic to Canada and its partners and that will attract foreign direct investment (FDI), thus helping to create more stable global supply chains. This includes minerals like vanadium, gallium, titanium, scandium, magnesium, tellurium, zinc, niobium, and germanium.
By increasing the supply and processing of these minerals, Canada can work with it allies to manufacture products we need, such as military optics, semi-conductors, prosthetic limbs, ultrasound machines, solar panels and wind turbines.
At the same time, Canada will work to strengthen and consolidate Canada’s existing position as a strong, sustainable producer of potash, uranium, and aluminum, all minerals that are critical to the global economy. Whether it is opportunities in low-carbon energy and electrification, healthcare, green buildings, or food security, these minerals are central to Canada’s trading relationships and strategic global position.