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Critical Minerals List of the United Kingdom

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 02 July 2026

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:

  1. Aluminium*
  2. Antimony 
  3. Bismuth 
  4. Borates* 
  5. Cobalt 
  6. Gallium 
  7. Germanium*
  8. Hafnium*
  9. Helium*
  10. Indium 
  11. Iridium* 
  12. Iron*
  13. Lithium 
  14. Magnesite* 
  15. Magnesium 
  16. Manganese*
  17. Natural Graphite*
  18. Nickel*
  19. Niobium 
  20. Phosphorus*
  21. Platinum 
  22. Rare Earth Elements (Rees) 
  23. Rhenium* 
  24. Rhodium* 
  25. Ruthenium*
  26. Silicon 
  27. Sodium*
  28. Tantalum 
  29. Tellurium 
  30. Tin 
  31. Titanium* 
  32. Tungsten 
  33. Vanadium 
  34. Zinc*


*2025 additions 

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