(Editor's Note: This originally appeared in Inside Critical Minerals .) The U.S., India, Japan and Australia on Tuesday launched the “Quad Critical Minerals Initiative Framework,” intended to strengthen coordinated efforts to secure and diversify critical minerals supply chains. Under the framework, announced on the margins of a Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in India, the partners will “work together to use economic policy tools and coordinated investment to accelerate the development of diversified and fair critical mineral markets and support...