Critical Minerals List of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom released its Critical Minerals Strategy in November 2025, revising the 2022 critical minerals list. The complete list of critical minerals, sourced from the Critical Mineral Intelligence Centre’s 2024 Criticality Assessment, is as follows:

• Aluminium*
• Antimony 
• Bismuth 
• Borates* 
• Cobalt 
• Gallium 
• Germanium*
• Hafnium*
• Helium*
• Indium 
• Iridium* 
• Iron*
• Lithium 
• Magnesite* 
• Magnesium 
• Manganese*
• Natural Graphite*
• Nickel*
• Niobium 
• Phosphorus*
• Platinum 
• Rare Earth Elements (Rees) 
• Rhenium* 
• Rhodium* 
• Ruthenium*
• Silicon 
• Sodium*
• Tantalum 
• Tellurium 
• Tin 
• Titanium* 
• Tungsten 
• Vanadium 
• Zinc*

*2025 additions 

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