Von Smartphones bis zu Kühlschränken: Großbritannien beendet die übermäßige Abhängigkeit von Importen kritischer Mineralien
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/from-smartphones-to-fridges-uk-to-end-overreliance-on-imports-of-critical-minerals
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Government launches strategy to end overreliance on foreign imports of critical minerals
Some key commitments in the Critical Minerals Strategy include:
* 10% of UK’s mineral needs produced domestically and 20% through recycling by 2035.
* At least 50,000 tonnes of lithium to be produced in the UK by 2035.
* £50 million fund to back UK businesses by boosting critical minerals projects and turbocharging domestic production and processing, helping UK move ahead in the global race.
* No more than 60% of the UK’s supply of any one critical mineral is imported from any one country by 2035.
The strategy will also see the Government work with the sector to harness the UK’s world leading capability with Europe’s largest lithium deposit in Cornwall, one of the largest sources of tungsten globally, one of the largest nickel refineries in Europe in Clydach, Swansea and the only Western source of rare earth alloys used in the magnets found in wind turbines and F-35 fighter jets, amongst others.
The full Critical Minerals Strategy can be found [here.](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-critical-minerals-strategy/vision-2035-critical-minerals-strategy)
This strategy is on top of existing measures the Government has taken to boost the critical minerals sector such as:
* Over £165 million already committed to backing critical mineral businesses through the National Wealth Fund and UK Export Finance
* Cutting businesses’ industrial electricity costs through the government’s British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS)
* Permitting innovative projects in domestic production and recycling through the Environment Agency’s priority tracked service
Minerals is one thing but do we actually have the industry to actually make stuff like smartphones and fridges out of them?
Man, what are these news, good things and sensible policies keep coming and coming, I thought we were all doomed
Well this sounds like sensible stuff and good news. I await the Reddit bots and LLM’s to tell me why it is not. Please form an orderly queue.
Please please please don’t let the nimbys stop us extracting lithium in Cornwall. [They’ve objected to removal of old waste heaps](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ezv2deek7o) so I can’t imagine the locals are going to be happy about the rest of the impact lithium mining is going to create.
Ok, producing minerals domestically makes perfect sense.
But this is a political nightmare, and is one area where the population are completely ungovernable in. People support domestic production of essential minerals in principle, but as soon as you suggest opening a mine they accuse you of trashing the earth for profit.
If a war broke out we would be screwed. Its all part of nato strategy to make sure we dont fold in a month of combat
Lol, talk about hyperbolic titles. We will end the over reliance on mineral imports so we can export them to Taiwan and get the finished phone imported back? It’s not a bad idea, but our phones will still be 100% relying on imports, let’s not pretend we’re suddenly a superpower.