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Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
This series brings together all documents relating to minerals surveys.
Africa holds significant potential to expand its role in global critical mineral supply chains, but must overcome processing gaps and supply constraints to increase more value.
The Government has launched the UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy.
This page provides information about the legal requirements governing the import of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold into Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021.
The government's new strategy sets the UK’s long-term ambition to ensure we have the critical minerals we need to drive economic growth and the clean energy transition.
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