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Aspects in Mining & Mineral Science

Innovative Engineering Design of the High-Angle Conveyor for Mining of Deep-Seated Mineral Deposits

Submission: June 01, 2018; Published: September 12, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/AMMS.2018.02.000535

ISSN : 2578-0255
Volume2 Issue2

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This issue of material criticality has been receiving much attention recently from governments all over the world. The United States and the European Union have two different definitions of what makes a material critical. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) defines criticality in two ways: (A) supply based risk based on projected market balances, competing energy demands, political, regulatory and social factors, co-production risks, and producer diversity; and, (B) importance to clean energy based on clean energy demand and substitutability [1]. Net import reliance can hint at the supply based risk for materials. Figure 1 shows the United States net import reliance for materials of interest.

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