From the steel skeletons of rising cities to the copper wires that carry power and information, the modern world is built on mined minerals. We rely on these minerals every day—they’re in the cars we drive, the cell phones we keep in our pockets, the computers we work on, and the medical devices that save lives. They’re embedded in the memory chips powering AI, the drones used in modern defense systems, the wind grids generating clean electricity, the airplanes that shrink our world, the tractors that plant our food, and the roads that connect communities and economies.

Minerals fuel the batteries behind clean energy, form the circuits of innovation, and quite literally ground the infrastructure of the future. Critical minerals are not just raw materials—they are the building blocks of civilization and the backbone of today’s global economy. Without them, progress halts. As global demand surges, so does our responsibility to rethink how we extract, process, and add value with sustainability, equity, fairness, and innovation at the core.