Rare earths and critical minerals could also be in Andalusia: the greatest indications are in Córdoba and Huelva

Among the materials ‘detected’ are antimony, barite, bismuth, cobalt, copper and strontium

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Junta de Andalucía has drawn up a map of the critical minerals existing in the Andalusian territory. According to this map, there are 1,993 “indications” in the community that point to the possible presence of 19 critical minerals and rare earths. It is an “updated snapshot of the raw materials that are essential in the development of new clean technologies” and that are, at the moment, at the centre of the global debate after the tension between the Trump and Zelensky administrations with the former linking the end of the war to Ukraine’s transfer of its rare earths. These 1,993 indications of critical minerals and rare earths are distributed as follows according to the provinces: Almeria, 249; Cádiz, 46; Córdoba, 559; Granada, 205; Huelva, 409; Jaén, 120; Malaga, 204; and Seville, 201; as shown in the map available on the Andalusian Mining portal. The critical materials ‘detected’ are antimony, barite, bismuth, cobalt, copper, strontium, feldspar, fluorite, phosphates, graphite, lithium, magnesium, manganese, nickel, platinoids, silicon, rare earths, titanium, vanadium and tungsten.

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