News & Insights
Follow the forces reshaping natural resources. Read clear explanations of mineral supply, critical materials, resource markets, processing, technology demand, infrastructure, and the developments connecting the earth's raw materials to the modern economy.
Resource Topics Worth Understanding
Move from current developments into the permanent Earth Value Index reference library for deeper context.
Critical Minerals
Supply security, strategic materials, processing concentration, government lists, and industrial dependence.
Explore Critical Minerals → 02Resource Markets
Understand pricing, supply and demand, inventories, benchmarks, trade, contracts, and commodity differences.
Explore Markets → 03Battery Supply Chains
Lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, manganese, processing, battery chemistry, and energy-storage demand.
Explore Battery Minerals → 04Resource Uses
See how minerals and metals connect to electric vehicles, smartphones, homes, grids, energy, and modern technology.
Explore Resource Uses →News, Analysis & Resource Guides
Recent Earth Value Index articles explaining the developments, technologies, market forces, and supply-chain issues shaping natural resources.
Natural Resources Used in Clean Energy
Home / Resource Uses / Clean Energy Resource Uses Natural Resources Used in Clean Energy Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, power grids, electric infrastructure,…
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Natural Resources Used in Agriculture
See which natural resources support modern agriculture, including potash, phosphate rock, limestone, steel, copper, aluminum, silica, and energy resources used across farms and food…
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Homes
See which natural resources are used in homes and construction, including copper, steel, gypsum, silica, limestone, glass, insulation materials, and other essential building resources.
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Electric Vehicles: Metals, Minerals & Battery Materials
Electric vehicles depend on battery minerals, electrical metals, rare earth elements, structural materials, and advanced electronics. See what goes into EV batteries, motors, power…
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Supply Risk Checker
Review the main factors that can make a natural-resource supply chain more exposed, including mining concentration, processing dependence, substitution, recycling, demand, and project lead…
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Critical Mineral Checker
Check selected minerals against major critical-mineral and strategic-material frameworks and understand why designation can differ by jurisdiction.
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Resource Comparison
Compare two natural resources side by side and review their uses, market role, supply characteristics, common forms, strategic relevance, and demand drivers.
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Country Resource Finder
Explore major metals, minerals, energy resources, and industrial materials associated with selected countries and understand their role in global resource supply.
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Resource Use Finder
Choose a product, technology, or industry to see the major natural resources commonly used in it, what each material does, and why it matters.
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Grade Converter
Convert mineral and ore grades between percent, grams per tonne, ppm, and ppb, and view equivalent concentration values instantly.
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Resource Unit Converter
Convert common mass and grade units used in mining, minerals, metals, and resource data, including tonnes, pounds, troy ounces, percent, g/t, ppm, and ppb.
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Contained Metal Calculator
Calculate theoretical contained metal or mineral from total ore or deposit quantity and grade, with results shown in several common mass units.
Read Article →Move From the Article to the Evidence
News changes quickly. Earth Value Index is designed so each article can lead into permanent reference pages, tools, markets, and resource profiles.
Resource Profiles
Start with the material itself. Review what it is, what it is used for, where it comes from, and why it matters.
Browse Resources → 02Markets
Understand how resources are priced and traded and what can move supply, demand, inventories, and market value.
Explore Markets → 03Resource Tools
Calculate resource value, convert units, compare materials, check critical status, and examine supply-chain exposure.
Open Tools → 04Countries
Follow major resource-producing countries and understand how geography connects to global mineral supply.
Explore Countries → 05Resource Uses
See which materials support smartphones, electric vehicles, homes, energy systems, infrastructure, and modern technology.
Explore Uses → 06Critical Minerals
Understand why certain materials receive strategic attention because of economic importance and supply vulnerability.
Critical Minerals →Context Before Conclusions
Resource stories are often more complicated than a headline, price move, mine announcement, or government designation suggests.
A quoted commodity price is not the same thing as the economic value of a deposit, project, or finished material.
Mining, processing, refining, manufacturing, logistics, and recycling can each create different constraints.
Articles should help readers move from current developments into permanent reference material and tools.
Follow the Story Behind the Resource
Understand the materials, markets, countries, technologies, and supply chains shaping the modern resource economy.