Tag: helium

Finalized Critical Mineral List Excludes Helium, Uranium, Other Minerals on 2018 List

Over objections from GOP lawmakers, the Department of the Interior has published a finalized critical mineral list that omits helium, uranium, potash, and other minerals that were on the original 2018 list, which was published in response to then-President Trump’s 2017 executive order. The Department had solicited comments on its draft list, released in November…


China’s Industrial Development Is Constrained by Shortage of Specialty Gases and Lack of Talents

Commentary Chinese media outlets reported on March 29 that China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and other government departments have recently issued successive policies in an attempt to solve what they call “bottleneck issues,”  including the shortage of chips and key technologies. However, the shortage of industrial gases, especially electron specialty gases, is a big…