Updated US Critical Minerals List, published by the Department of the Interior, includes 60 minerals, with phosphate and potash amongst ten minerals added (also added: boron, copper, lead, metallurgical coal, rhenium, silicon, silver, uranium). The new 2025 list is the 3rd US Critical Minerals List, updating the 2nd (2022) and 1st (2018) lists. The 2018 list had only 35 minerals, including potash (removed in 2022 and then restored in 2025), but not phosphate. The List is proposed by the US Geological Survey (USGS), after public consultation, based on an assessment of risks posed by possible supply chain disruption to the US economy and national security, in particular possible impacts of foreign trade disruption and whether the supply chain relies on a single supplier or possible point of failure. 84 minerals were assessed under 1200 disruption scenarios for impacts on over 400 US industry sectors and on the economy as a whole.
“Interior Department releases final 2025 List of Critical Minerals”, US Government press release, 7th November 2025 https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-final-2025-list-critical-minerals
Publication in the US Federal Register, 7th November 2025 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/07/2025-19813/final-2025-list-of-critical-minerals