Federal Register list of 50 minerals designated as U.S. critical minerals in 2022.
The 2022 final list is the operative list evidence for U.S. critical-mineral designation as published by the Secretary of the Interior through USGS. It is a list record, not a universal geological or trade definition.
2022 Final List of Critical Minerals
The 2022 final list of critical minerals, which revises the final list published by the Secretary in 2018, includes the following 50 minerals: Aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.
North American critical-minerals/materials source layer; source-specific and not interchangeable with EU CRMA or EU Conflict Minerals definitions.
Reference: 87 FR 10381, Summary
Implementation records should capture the Federal Register notice, list year, material name, list membership status, material identifier, change history from prior lists, and link back to the 30 U.S.C. § 1606 designation authority.
The U.S. 2022 final list is a list-version control: material-scope claims need the exact list year and material spelling rather than a generic “critical minerals” label.