Edelgas Group: Helium Left Off USGS Critical Minerals Draft Again

Aug 24, 2025
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Edelgas notes that the USGS’s draft 2025 Critical Minerals List names 54 commodities, adding copper, silver, potash, silicon, rhenium, and lead while dropping arsenic and tellurium but pointedly omits helium.

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