The 6th Trilateral EU-US-Japan Conference on Critical Materials Strategies for Sustainable Supply of Critical Raw Materials November 29th, 2016 The 6th Trilateral EU-US-Japan Conference on Critical Materials will be held on the 29th November 2016 at the Breydel Auditorium of Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission, during the first edition of the Raw Materials Week. EuroGeoSurveys will be at the forefront during the week. Mr Luca Demicheli, EuroGeoSurveys Secretary General, will be chairing the Session 1: Criticality and risks analysis. The Session will tackle the following topics: material flows and stocks Analysis; methodology for assessing critical materials; raw materials data and information for policy making. The Director General of the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), Eikichi Tsukuda, will attend the event. For more information about the Raw Materials...

A new map showing the occurrences of critical raw materials in Europe has been released by the Minerals Resources Expert Group of EuroGeoSurveys. In particular, the Document shows European mineral deposits from the ProMine Mineral Deposit database as containing critical commodities, according to the list of critical raw materials of the European Commission. Europe’s industry and economy depends on a secure and good access to many commodities. In 2010, the European Commission identified 14 critical non energy non-agricultural raw materials. Criticality is based on both the scarcity of supply and the importance of the material to European industry. The list has been updated and expanded over time. Today, it includes the following critical materials: antimony, beryllium, boron, fluorspar, phosphate, gallium, germanium, graphite, indium, silicon, cobalt, coke, chrome magnesite, magnesium, niobium, platinum group metals, light and heavy rare earth elements and tungsten. Such list is deemed strategically important for many product areas, not least in environmental technology. Download the PDF of the Map More information about the Map:  ...