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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Essential Mineral Logistics}}
{{Inquiry header
|series=EMIP
|series page=EMIP
|phase=Inquiry
|round=1
|rounds=2
|closes=TBD
|question=What end-to-end mineral systems can stakeholders envision that maximize efficiency and profitability through strategic facility placement and intelligent material movement?
|responses=TBD
|participants=TBD
|synthesis=TBD
}}

== Background statement ==
North American mineral supply chains are inefficient, reducing profitability and sustainability, because they have been developed as independent projects with little coordination among the different stages. For an industry that requires moving large volumes of heavy materials to and from mines, processing plants, and manufacturing facilities, it is striking how much of this movement relies on trucks. In Nevada, where mining is the second-largest industry, less than 4% of these materials are transported by rail, and less than a quarter of one percent move by rail between in-state mines and processing facilities.

== Round One: Assessing production and marketplace logistics ==
{{Round|Round One: Assessing production and marketplace logistics|state=open|note=Open for response. Producers, carriers, processors, and economic developers each see a different part of this.}}

# For which minerals are we aiming to improve logistics? {{Q|Round One Q1}}
# What volume and location data on the relevant mineral production is available and helpful to our thinking? {{Q|Round One Q2}}
# What volume and location data on the relevant mineral consumption is available and helpful to our thinking? {{Q|Round One Q3}}
# What level of GIS mapping of the facilities and data would be helpful? {{Q|Round One Q4}}
# What are the volumes and locations of each essential mineral supply chain component for production, processing, and consumption? {{Q|Round One Q5}}
# What share of mineral transportation moves by truck versus rail, and what are the volumes? {{Q|Round One Q6}}
# What logistics services are provided to the components of the essential minerals supply chains, and what are the gaps and shortcomings of those services? {{Q|Round One Q7}}
# What concerns for the transportation of minerals, ores, and products must be addressed? {{Q|Round One Q8}}
# What new mining, production, and processing locations are in construction or on the drawing board? {{Q|Round One Q9}}
# What role can location play, both of individual mines and facilities and of their relation to each other, in creating efficient mineral supply chains? {{Q|Round One Q10}}
# What areas of the market for sourcing or distributing minerals are difficult to access because of logistics dynamics? {{Q|Round One Q11}}
# What industrial growth opportunities from reshoring and reindustrialization need specific transportation improvements? {{Q|Round One Q12}}
# What market expansion opportunities would benefit from logistics improvements? {{Q|Round One Q13}}
# Which import opportunities need new logistics approaches? {{Q|Round One Q14}}
# Which export opportunities need new logistics approaches? {{Q|Round One Q15}}

== Round Two: Redesigning production and marketplace logistics ==
{{Round|Round Two: Redesigning production and marketplace logistics|state=upcoming|note=Opens once the Round One picture is complete enough to design against.}}

# How can we address the needed transportation logistics improvements? {{Q|Round Two Q1}}

== Related inquiries in this series ==
* [[EMIP/Essential Minerals Alignment|Alignment]] &mdash; which minerals are essential, and in what volumes
* [[EMIP/Essential Minerals Environmental|Environmental]] &mdash; full lifecycle impacts and community alignment
* [[EMIP/Essential Minerals Regulatory Excellence|Regulatory Excellence]]
* [[EMIP/Essential Minerals Capitalization|Capitalization]]

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