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GOROMONZI, ZIMBABWE - JANUARY 11: A grinding mill installed at the Arcadia Lithium mine on January 11, 2022 in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe. Last month, the Chinese firm Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said it would pay over $400 million for the hard-rock lithium mine, whose product is a key ingredient in rechargeable batteries used in electric vehicles. The world's transition to

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The Critical Minerals Imperative: Competing in the Twenty-First-Century Resource Race

January 20, 2026 — By Emily McGrath and Andrew Stettner

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