Strategic Metals
Strategic metals are defined as metals
of vital importance to the national defense, energy and industry
sectors and are used as jet fuels, in space research and atomic plants.
Examples are manganese, titanium, zirconium.Aug 25, 2013
Homeland Security’s strategic metals were more realistic and included ferrous alloys chromium, manganese, titanium, and cobalt, and minor metals germanium, niobium, tellurium, the rare earth elements, and tungsten.Aug 15, 2012
Copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum group metals are considered strategic because of their importance to the U.S. economy, national security and the emerging green economy.