CMI Project 4.3.14: Criticality, life cycles, material flows and scenarios

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If the U.S. and rest of the world leave all incremental new cobalt demanded from 2017 through 2030 to be supplied by China, costs could be 5-80x larger than if they maintained their 2017 shares of global production into 2030.

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Equilibrium impacts on U.S. economy of disruption to China cobalt supply

Best-fit, log-linear relationships and 95% confidence between prices and abundance

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Understanding relative metal prices and availability: Combining physical and economic perspectives

LCA schematic of lithium recovery from geothermal brines using CMI innovations in sorbent and membrane technology.

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CMI sorbents and forward osmosis reduce environmental impacts

Modified Cumulative Availability Curve integrating copper reserves and resources. The vertical axis indicates the estimated extraction cost in different countries. The horizontal axis indicates remaining contained copper from known deposits.

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Reconciling diverging views on mineral depletion - a modified cumulative availability curve applied to copper resources

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Chinese policies toward rare earths, 1975-2018

Publications

T. Fishman T.E. Graedel

Impact of the establishment of US offshore wind power on neodymium flows

Nature Sustainability, 2019

Rod Eggert at Colorado School of Mines leads the CMI project "Criticality, life cycles, material flows and scenarios"

For all relevant critical and potentially-critical materials, this project provides (1) forward-looking criticality assessments and underlying economic analysis; (2) life-cycle assessments; and (3) material-flow and scenario analyses.