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Essential reading: reports
Arndt, Nicholas (Institute of Earth Sciences), Augé, Thierry (French Geological Survey) and Cuney, Michel (Geo-Resources Laboratoire of the Université de Lorraine), ‘Les Ressources minerals en Chine’, July 2014
‘The Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy: achieving US national security objectives in a changing environment’, US Department of Defense, 2015
‘Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf Meeting at Headquarters, 11 July–26 August’, Background release, United Nations (UN), 11 July 2016
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions on the 2017 list of Critical Raw Materials for the EU
‘Critical Metals in the Path towards the Decarbonisation of the EU Energy Sector’, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, 2013
‘Defense Science Board Task Force on High Performance Microchip Supply’, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, 2005
‘Les dessous du recyclage: dix ans de suivi de la filière des déchets électriques et électroniques en France’, rapport Les Amis de la Terre France, December 2016
Draft Critical Mineral List — Summary of Methodology and Background Information — U.S. Geological Survey Technical Input Document in Response to Secretarial Order No. 3359, Open-File Report 2018-1021, U.S. Geological Survey, 2018
‘EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA)’, Europol, 2013
‘Export Restrictions in Raw Materials Trade: facts, fallacies and better practices’, OECD, 2014.
Eugster, Martin and Hischier, Roland, ‘Key Environmental Impacts of the Chinese EEE-Industry’, Tsinghua University, China, 2007
Freeman III, Charles W., ‘Remember the Magnequench: An Object Lesson in Globalization’, The Washington Quarterly, 2009, pp. 61–76
‘Global crude steel output increases by 4.6 per cent in 2018’, World Steel Association, 25 January 2019
Grasso, Valerie Bailey, ‘Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress’, Congressional Research Service, 23 December 2013
‘The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future’, World Bank Group, June 2017
Guéhenno, Jean-Marie, French White Paper on Defence and National Security 2013, Ministry of Defence, 2013
H.R.2262 — US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, 114th Congress (2015–2016)
Huisman, J., Botezatu, I., Herreras, L., Liddane, M., Hintsa, J., Luda di Cortemiglia, V., Leroy, P., Vermeersch, E., Mohanty, S., van den Brink, S., Ghenciu, B., Kehoe, J., Baldé, C.P., Magalini, F., and Bonzio, A., Countering WEEE Illegal Trade (CWIT) Summary Report, Market Assessment, Legal Analysis, Crime Analysis and Recommendations Roadmap, 31 August 2015, Lyon, France
‘Interior Releases 2018’s Final List of 35 Minerals Deemed Critical to U.S. National Security and the Economy’, USGS, May 2018
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‘Les enjeux stratégiques des terres rares et des matières premières stratégiques et critiques’, report by Patrick Hetzel and Delphine Bataille for the French Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Assessment (OPECST) Office, n° 617, t. II, 2015–2016, 19 May 2016
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Mancheri, Nabeel, Sundaresan, Lalitha, and Chandrashekar, S., ‘Dominating the World: China and the rare earth industry’, National Institute of Advanced Studies, 2013
‘Manchin, Capito & Murkowski Reintroduce Rare Earth Element Advanced Coal Technologies Act’, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, 5 April 2019
Marscheider-Weidemann, Frank, Sabine, Langkau, Torsten, Hummen, Lorenz, Erdmann, Tercero, Espinoza Luis, ‘Raw Materials for Emerging Technologies 2016’, German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA) at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), March 2016
‘Matières premières: le grand retour des stratégies publiques’, Paris Technology Review, 4 May 2012
McGregor, James, Senior Counsellor APCO, ‘China’s Drive for “Indigenous Innovation”: a web of industrial policies’, US Chamber of Commerce, 2010
Mills, Mark P., The Cloud Begins with Coal: big data, big networks, big infrastructure, and big power—an overview of the electricity used by the global digital ecosystem, August 2013
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2017, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey
The National Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006–2020), The State Council of the People’s Republic of China, 2006
O’Sullivan, Meghan, Overland, Indra, and Sandalow, David, ‘The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy’, Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, June 2017
‘Panorama du marché du tungstène’, French Geological Survey, July 2012
Parthemore, Christine and Nagl, John, ‘Fueling the Future Force: preparing the Department of Defense for a post-petroleum era’, Center for a New American Security, September 2010
‘Presidential Executive Order on Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States’, The White House, 21 July 2017
Preston, Felix, Bailey, Rob and Bradley, Siân (Chatham House), 2016, and Jigang, Dr Wei and Changwen, Dr Zhao (DRC), ‘Navigating the New Normal: China and global resource governance’, January 2016
‘Prosperity for the masses by 2020 – China’s 13th Five-Year Plan and its business implications’, PwC China, Hong Kong and Macau, 2015
‘Rare Earth and Radioactive Waste: a preliminary waste stream assessment of the Lynas advanced materials plant, Gebeng, Malaysia’, National Toxics Network, April 2012
‘Recycling Rates of Metals: A Status Report’, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2011
‘Renewable 2016 Global Status Report’, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, 2016
‘Renewable Energy and Jobs — Annual Review 2018’, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
‘Report on Critical Raw Materials for the EU’, Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials, May 2014
‘Report on low-level radioactive wastes’, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Assessment (OPECST), 1992
‘Research and development: USA, Europe and Japan increasingly challenged by emerging countries, says a UNESCO report’, Unescopress, 10 November 2010
‘Ressources minérales et énergie: rapport du groupe Sol et sous-sol de l’Alliance Ancre’, Alliance nationale de coordination de la recherche scientifique (ANCRE), June 2015
Seaman, John, ‘Rare Earth and Clean Energy: analyzing China’s upper hand’, Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), September 2010
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‘Trends in the mining and metals industry’, ICMM (International Council of Mining & Metals), October 2012
‘UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030’, 2015
United Nations Climate Change, ‘Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change: 195 nations set path to keep temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius’, 13 December 2015
‘United States Expands Its Challenge to China’s Export Restraints on Key Raw Materials’, Office of the United States Trade Representative, July 2016
‘U.S. Leads in Greenhouse Gas Reductions, but Some States Are Falling Behind’, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, 27 March 2018
van der Voet, Ester, Salminen, Reijo, Eckelman, Matthew, Mudd, Gavin, Norgate, Terry, Hisschier, Roland, Spijker, Job, Vijver, Martina, Selinus, Olle, Posthuma, Leo, de Zwart, Dick, van de Meent, Dik, Reuter, Markus, Tikana, Ladji, Valdivia, Sonia, Wäger, Patrick, Hauschild, Michael Zwicky, and de Koning, Arjan, ‘Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles: a report of the working group on the global metal flows to the International Resource Panel’, Kenya, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2013
‘World Energy Outlook 2014 Factsheet: Power and renewables’, International Energy Agency, 2014
Essential reading: articles
Apremont, Bernard, ‘L’économie de l’URSS dans ses rapports avec la Chine et les démocraties Populaires’, Politique étrangère, 1956, vol. 21, n° 5, p. 601–13
Buss, Sandro, ‘Des aimants permanents en terres rares’, La Revue polytechnique, no. 1745, 13 April 2010
Chellaney, Brahma, ‘The Challenge from Authoritarian Capitalism to Liberal Democracy’, China-US Focus, 6 October 2016
‘China Declared World’s Largest Producer of Scientific Articles’, Scientific American, 23 January 2018
Paarlberg, Robert L., ‘Lessons of the Grain Embargo’, Foreign Affairs, Fall 1980 issue
Petersen, John, ‘How Large Lithium-ion Batteries Slash EV Benefits’, 2016
‘Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline’, NPR, 7 February 2019
Vidal, Olivier, Goffé, Bruno and Arndt, Nicholas, ‘Metals for a low-carbon society’, Nature Geoscience, vol. 6, November 2013
Essential viewing
Mönch, Max, Lahl, Alexander, Ocean’s Monopoly, Werwiewas, 2015
Guillaume, Pitron and Turquier, Serge, Rare Earths: the dirty war, 2012
Secrets of the Super Elements, presented by Mark Miodownik, BBC, 2017
Tison, Coline and Lichtenstein, Laurent, Datacenter: the hidden face of the web, Camicas Productions, 2012
Useful websites by region
Africa
African Development Bank (Ethiopia): https://www.afdb.org
Royal Bafokeng Holdings (South Africa): www.bafokengholdings.com
United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya): www.unep.org
Asia
The Chinese Society of Rare Earths (China): https://fr.linkedin.com/company/the-chinese-society-ofrareearths
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (Japan): www.nedo.go.jp/english
PT Timah TBK (Indonesia): www.timah.com
Australia
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies: www.amec.org.au
Australia’s Mining Monthly: www.miningmonthly.com
Australia Minerals: www.australiaminerals.gov.au
Australian Mining Magazine: www.australianmining.com.au
Geoscience Australia: www.ga.gov.au
Lynas Corporation: www.lynascorp.com
Minerals Council of Australia: www.minerals.org.au
Northern Minerals: https://northernminerals.com.au
France
Commission for Independent Research and Information about Radiation (CRIIRAD): http://www.criirad.org/english/presentation.html
Cyclope: www.cercle-cyclope.com/?lang=en
Didier Julienne’s articles on Le Cercle, a Les Echos newspaper blog
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Cadarache Centre – New Energy Technologies: www.cea.fr/english
French Geological Survey (BRGM): www.brgm.eu
French Environment & Energy Management Agency (ADEME): https://www.ademe.fr/en
GeoRessources Geology Laboratory (Université de Lorraine): https://georessources.univ-lorraine.fr/en
International Energy Agency: www.iea.org
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: http://www.oecd.org/corporate/mne/mining.htm
Europe
Basel Convention (Switzerland): www.basel.int
European Commission, Raw Material Unit (Belgium): https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/raw-materials_fr
Global Reporting Initiative (Netherlands): www.globalreporting.org
Global Trade Alert (Switzerland): www.globaltradealert.org
World Economic Forum (Switzerland): www.weforum.org
Institut Fraunhofer (Germany): www.fraunhofer.de/en.html
World Trade Organization (Switzerland): www.wto.org
Latin America
Greenpeace Argentina: www.greenpeace.org/argentina/es
International Seabed Authority (Jamaica): www.isa.org.jm/fr
Middle East
International Renewable Energy Agency: www.irena.org
United Kingdom
Argus Media: www.argusmedia.com
British Geological Survey: www.bgs.ac.uk
Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs: www.chathamhouse.org
The Geological Society: www.geolsoc.org.uk
International Tin Research Institute: www.itri.co.uk
The Mining Association of the United Kingdom: www.mauk.org.uk
Women In Mining: www.womeninmining.org.uk
United States
Ames Laboratory: www.ameslab.gov
Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) of the Oceans & Law of the Sea (United Nations): www.un.org/depts/los/clcs_new/clcs_home.htm
Congressional Research Reports of the Federation of American Scientists: https://fas.org/sgp/crs
Great Basin Resource Watch: https://gbrw.org
InvestorIntel: https://investorintel.com/sectors/technology-metals
Technology Metals Research: www.techmetalsresearch.com
U.S. Geological Survey: www.usgs.gov
US Government Accountability Office: www.gao.gov
US Magnetic Materials Association: www.usmagneticmaterials.com
World Bank: www.banquemondiale.org