US proposal to remove helium from 2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals
- AKAP
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min read
Helium (like potash, rhenium, and strontium) was on the 2018 list of critical minerals but does not meet the quantitative threshold nor have a single point of failure. The United States is the world’s leading producer and a net exporter of helium. Helium’s trade exposure score was thus 0 and, in turn, its supply risk score was 0.