Lundin-Snider Seminar Series - Isabel Barton 

Critical Minerals in Peace and War
How critical minerals started (and ended!) both World Wars
When is a mineral critical ...and when is it not?
Is our current approach future-proof?
Many minerals are critical to civilization, but some are more critical than others! Society’s mineral needs have evolved over time, and technological and geopolitical changes can suddenly make a mineral critical - or just as suddenly, render it useless.
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