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Critical minerals
Minerals essential to modern technology and defense where supply is at risk, including lithium, rare earths, tin, and tungsten.
From the episode “He Predicted the Lithium Boom in 2016. Everyone Called Him Crazy.”Hear it on the podcast1 episode
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