The National Council for the Industrialization of Critical and Strategic Minerals approved the list of 27 minerals in three priority tiers, with rare earths, graphite, lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, silicon and uranium in the top tier, and the law provides up to R$ 7 billion in incentives for processing and transformation projects. The measure is part of building a national policy to expand Brazil's share of the international strategic minerals market.