Commodity Profile Fact Sheets
A series of commodity profile fact sheets covering nickel, copper, cobalt, lithium, and graphite. Each fact sheet highlights key trends, risks, and opportunities across the mining life cycle, from exploration and extraction to processing and recycling.
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As the world experiences the dual energy and digital transition, demand for critical minerals is soaring. Minerals such as these are essential to low–greenhouse gas energy technologies and digital infrastructure, yet their supply chains face growing economic, environmental, and social pressures.
This series of commodity profile fact sheets from the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development helps navigate the complex critical minerals landscape. Each fact sheet highlights key trends, risks, and opportunities across the mining life cycle, from exploration and extraction to processing and recycling. They examine the geopolitical dynamics, market shifts, and sustainability challenges shaping the future of mineral supply chains, alongside the policy tools that can help manage them.
By providing evidence-based insights, the series supports informed decision making to advance sustainable, inclusive, and resilient critical mineral value chains for the low carbon future.
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