Critical Minerals- Venezuela’s Coltan and the Quiet...

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Critical Minerals- Venezuela’s Coltan and the Quiet Fragility of Tantalum and Niobium

Venezuela shows how optionality in tantalum and niobium—not scale—could reduce US exposure to highly concentrated, geopolitically fragile supply chains. The US intervention in Venezuela brought a flurry of analysis on oil trade and regional hegemony. A smaller part of the story that is largely absent from public discourse is critical minerals. The key point...

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