The critical minerals listed in this statistic are as published in the (U.S.) Federal Register on February 24, 2022. Not all critical minerals are shown due to a lack of available data on selected minerals. *Refinery production. **Includes the lanthanides cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, terbium, thulium, and ytterbium. The figures for gallium and magnesium are reported consumption.
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U.S. consumption volume of critical minerals 2025, by mineral
Aluminum was the leading critical mineral in the United States in 2025 based on apparent consumption volume. At ****million metric tons, U.S. aluminum consumption was over five times as much as the second leading critical mineral based on consumption, which was zinc at ** metric tons that year.
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