page_title: Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative
section_title: Mineral resources
hierarchical_section_title: Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative / List of critical foreign dependencies / Mineral resources
caption_attribution_description: Afrikaans: Swart Chromitiet en grys Anortosiet in gelaagde stollingsgesteentes van die kritieke sone-BG1 van die Bosveldstollingskompleks by die Mononorivier-dagsoom, naby Steelpoort, Limpopoprovinsie, Suid-Afrika. Dit behoort tot die Winterveld-noriet-anortosiet-eenheid van die Dwarsrivier-subsuite van die Rustenburg-gelaagde suite. English: Black Chromitite and grey anorthosite layered igneous rocks in Critical Zone UG1 of the Bushveld Igneous Complex at the Mononono River outcrop, near Steelpoort, Limpopo province, South Africa. Part of the Winterveld Norite-Anorthosite unit of the Dwars River Subsuite of the Rustenburg Layered Suite.
context_page_description: The Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative is a strategy and list, maintained by the United States Department of Homeland Security, of foreign infrastructure which "if attacked or destroyed would critically impact the U.S." A copy of the 2008 list was redacted and leaked by WikiLeaks on 5 December 2010 as part of the website's leak of US diplomatic cables; no details on the exact location of the assets was included in the list. The list's release was met with strong criticism from the US and British governments, while media and other countries have reacted less strongly saying that the entries are not secret and easily identified.
context_section_description: Australia - Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade; Nickel Mines
  China - Fluorite (Mine); Germanium Mine; Graphite Mine; Rare-earth minerals/elements; Tin Mine and Plant; and Tungsten - Mine and Plant
  Democratic Republic of Congo -  Cobalt (Mine and Plant)
  Gabon -  Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade
  Guinea - Bauxite (Mine)
  South Africa - Chromite mines around Rustenburg; Ferrochromium; Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade; Palladium Mine and Plant; Platinum Mines; and Rhodium
  Indonesia -  Tin Mine and Plant
  Japan - Iodine Mine
  Belgium -  Germanium Mine
  Norway -  Cobalt Nickel Mine
  Russia - Uranium Nickel Mine: Used in certain types of stainless steel and superalloys; Palladium Mine and Plant; and Rhodium
  Ukraine - Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade
  Kazakhstan - Ferrochromium Khromtau Complex, Kempersai, (Chromite Mine)
  India -Orissa (chromite mines) and Karnataka (chromite mines)
  Brazil - Iron Ore from Rio Tinto Mine; Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade; Niobium (Columbium), Araxa, Minas Gerais State (mine); and Ouvidor and Catalao I, Goias State: Niobium
  Chile -  Iodine Mine
  Canada - Germanium Mine; Graphite Mine; Iron Ore Mine; Nickel Mine; Niobec Mine, Quebec, Canada: Niobium
  Mexico - Graphite Mine
  Peru - Tin Mine and Plant
caption: Chromitite (black) and anorthosite (light grey) layered igneous rocks in Critical Zone UG1 of the Bushveld Igneous Complex at the Mononono River outcrop, near Steelpoort
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