There are 60 now? I know there's a new list. They added copper and things like that.
Some of them have greater commercial applications than defence applications. Some of them have very niche defence applications. If we're talking within a defence context, you don't necessarily want to consider all of these minerals that are considered critical. “Critical” doesn't equate necessarily to “defence”. It just means critical for our industrial base and for our defence industrial base.
The 12 that NATO considers—and NATO obviously has just a defence lens—are aluminum, beryllium, cobalt, gallium, germanium, graphite, lithium, manganese, platinum, rare earths, titanium and tungsten. Canada has reserves of all of these and produces some of them, some in great quantities—aluminum, for instance—and others in much more limited quantities, like gallium and germanium, which, apart from night-vision goggles, are also essential for semiconductor manufacturing.
