US ambitions to build out its critical minerals industry have met their match in Native American tribal groups. Multi-billion dollar projects have been stalled by protests and legal challenges over their impact on ancestral lands. Danielle Myles, fDi’s senior editor, looks into how to move beyond US mining’s most sensitive bottleneck. Explore the full article here.

Filmed and edited by Louis Bird-Mendes and Elinor Bagnall.