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Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements

Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements

Update: 2025-05-26
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Critical minerals are crucial to both the economy and national security. Rachel Teasdale, a professor at California State University, Chico, and program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, discusses how critical minerals and rare earth elements form and how we use them.

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Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements

Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements

U.S. National Science Foundation