{"id":12447,"date":"2023-06-24T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:46:38","slug":"mineral-security-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mineral-security-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Mineral Security Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mineral Security Partnership:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an ambitious new initiative to <strong>bolster critical mineral supply chains<\/strong>, announced by the <strong>United States (US) and key partner countries<\/strong> in June 2022.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of the alliance is to <strong>ensure that critical minerals are produced, processed, and recycled <\/strong>in a manner that supports the ability of countries to <strong>realise the full economic development benefit<\/strong> of their geological endowments.<\/li>\n<li>The focus of the grouping would be on the <strong>supply chains of minerals such as Cobalt, Nickel, Lithium<\/strong> and also the <strong>17 \u201crare earth\u201d minerals<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a critical mineral?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no global definition of critical minerals, but essentially, they are <strong>mineral deposits with high economic vulnerability <\/strong>and <strong>high global supply chain risk<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are major critical minerals?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>major critical minerals are Graphite, Lithium and Cobalt.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>used for making EV batteries <\/strong>and are also critical for <strong>making semiconductors<\/strong> and <strong>high-end electronics<\/strong> manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>These minerals are also used in <strong>manufacturing fighter jets<\/strong>, drones, radio sets and other critical equipment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who are the top producers of critical minerals?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>major producers<\/strong> of critical minerals globally are <strong>Chile, Indonesia, Congo, China<\/strong>, Australia and South Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are rare earth elements?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The 17 rare earth elements (REE) include the <strong>15 Lanthanides<\/strong> (atomic numbers 57 \u2014 which is Lanthanum \u2014 to 71 in the periodic table) <strong>plus Scandium<\/strong> (atomic number 21) <strong>and Yttrium (39)<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are major critical minerals?<\/h3>\n<p>The major critical minerals are Graphite, Lithium and Cobalt. They are used for making EV batteries and are also critical for making semiconductors and high-end electronics manufacturing. These minerals are also used in manufacturing fighter jets, drones, radio sets and other critical equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-joins-us-led-critical-mineral-club-boost-likely-for-ev-electronics-8683239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India joins US-led critical mineral club, boost likely for EV, electronics<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mineral Security Partnership is an ambitious new initiative to bolster critical mineral supply chains, announced by the United States (US).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}