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Canada’s mineral sector provides the minerals + metals that are essential to our everyday lives + to meeting Canada’s climate change goals. Minerals + metals are needed to make the materials + technologies that enable clean growth. https://bit.ly/33fH4Cy #cdnpoli

 

 

The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future (English)

Abstract Climate and greenhouse gas (GHG) scenarios have typically paid scant attention to the metal implications necessary to realize a low/zero carbon future. The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change indicates a global resolve to embark on development patterns that would significantly be less GHG intensive. One might assume that nonrenewable resource development and use will also need to decline in a carbon-constrained future. This report tests that assumption, identifies those commodities implicated in such a scenario and explores ramifications for relevant resource-rich developing countries. Using wind, solar, and energy storage batteries as proxies, the study examines which metals will likely rise in demand to be able to deliver on a carbon-constrained future. Metals which could see a growing market include aluminum (including its key constituent, bauxite), cobalt, copper, iron ore, lead, lithium, nickel, manganese, the platinum group of metals, rare earth metals including cadmium, molybdenum, neodymium, and indium—silver, steel, titanium and zinc. The report then maps production and reserve levels of relevant metals globally, focusing on implications for resource-rich developing countries. It concludes by identifying critical research gaps and suggestions for future work.

 

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The sad thing is Canada is not even mentioned in the chromite reserves for the world....p52

 

 

 

Kazakhstan 3,800 230,000
South Africa 15,000 200,000
India 3,500 54,000
Turkey 3,600 N/A
United States N/A N/A
Other countries 4,600 N/A
Total 30,500 ~ 480,000

 

World resources: World resources are greater than 12 billion tons of shipping-grade chromite,
sufficient to meet conceivable demand for centuries. About 95 percent of the world’s
chromium resources are geographically concentrated in Kazakhstan and southern Africa.
Substitutes: Chromium has no substitute in stainless steel, the leading end use, or in
superalloys, the major strategic end use. Chromium-containing scrap can substitute for
ferrochromium in some metallurgical uses.