Working with Allies on Critical Minerals

Posted date/time:April 14, 2026

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Duncan Wood and Mahnaz Khan examine US collaboration with its allies, Canada and Australia, on strengthening mineral processing capabilities.

In this edition of Wilson in One, Visiting Fellow Duncan Wood and Silverado Policy Accelerator's Mahnaz Khan examine US collaboration with its allies, Canada and Australia, on strengthening mineral processing capabilities.

Transcript

Duncan Wood: Working with allies like Canada or Australia, is that a priority for the administration?

Mahnaz Khan: I think the administration is very sophisticated in which minerals they want to work with when it comes to allies or what we call trading partners and which ones they want to re-industrialize here. When it comes to rare earth and rare earth magnets, they want to make sure that supply chain is vertically integrated here. We have all the elements. We just have to refine it and make sure it's economical and we can produce at scale to meet our own domestic demand. With other minerals, I think that we definitely understand that it's hard to process here and that we don't have those minerals within our country and within our borders. The administration is working with allies on those fronts to diversify some of those sources.