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Provides $3M to study critical minerals in mine tailings and waste across 13 states. The U.S. Geological Survey is investing nearly $3 million into 13 state geological surveys to evaluate critical minerals locked in mine waste – a program that could transform America's legacy tailings piles into strategic resources. Many of the minerals deemed critical to America's economy and security are scarce and seldom found in high enough geological concentrations to support a mine. H... Full story
Agreement supplies feedstock and offtake for Texas FJH plant. Forging a supply and offtake framework with Glencore, one of the world's largest diversified resource companies, Metallium Ltd. has entered a memorandum of understanding that secures feedstock for its first U.S. Flash Joule Heating (FJH) facility in Texas and establishes terms for the purchase of up to 75% of its recycled metal output. Seeing the potential first demonstrated at Rice University, Australia-based... Full story
Energy Department restructures $2.3B loan with Lithium Americas, gains 5% interest in company and Thacker Pass JV. In a deal designed to ensure a domestic supply of lithium and timely repayment of a $2.26 billion loan being made by the U.S. Department of Energy to help make that happen, the federal government is taking a 5% equity stake in both Lithium Americas Corp. and a joint venture formed to develop a lithium mine and processing plant at the Thacker Pass project in... Full story
$220M deal creates U.S.-Europe rare earths supply chain rival to China. In a roughly $220 million deal that will reshape rare earth supply chains in the United States and Europe, USA Rare Earth has locked in an agreement to acquire Less Common Metals (LCM), the most established producer of rare earth metals and alloys outside of China. The acquisition adds a critical link to the supply chain that USA Rare Earths is building in the U.S., which is anchored by its Round Top rare... Full story
Forge alliance to investigate delivery of Sheep Creek gallium and rare earths to U.S. military. In a strategic move to connect its extremely high-grade gallium-rare earths project in Montana to America's defense supply chains, US Critical Materials Corp. has forged an alliance with GreenMet, a Washington, DC-based consultancy firm that specializes in critical minerals strategy and financing. "We look forward to working closely with GreenMet to help establish rare earth and... Full story
New movement launches national campaign to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign minerals. Make America Mineral Independent Again (MAMIA) co-founder and Vice President of Operations Lauren Rose is taking a no-holds-barred approach to energizing companies and organizations across America's critical mineral supply chains. "I helped launch this movement because I was tired of watching America talk about energy independence while shipping our future overseas," she said upon the... Full story
Signs $245M contract to stockpile antimony mined in Alaska and refined in Montana. In a strategic move that will begin replenishing the National Defense Stockpile and anchor domestic supply chains, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded United States Antimony Corporation an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract of up to $245 million for bars of the strategic metalloid produced at the company's smelter in Montana. "It's incredibly meaningful for all... Full story
Funds study to expand energy metals production along sub-Saharan Africa’s Lobito Corridor. As part of a broader strategy to open the door to critical minerals projects across sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded Metalex Africa Zambia Limited $1.4 million to support the completion of a feasibility study for expanding copper and cobalt production at the Kazozu mine in Zambia. "USTDA's partnership with Metalex will help ensure that U.S. i... Full story
Partnership outlines integrated refining, magnet production, and recycling. Outlining plans for a new U.S. rare earth and permanent magnet production complex, ReElement Technologies Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding with POSCO International Corp. to combine refining, manufacturing, and recycling into the first fully integrated facility of its kind. Coming only days after parent company American Resources Corp. equipped its operations to recover rare earths from sh... Full story
Perpetua gains Notice to Proceed with Stibnite mine development after 8 years of permitting. After nearly a decade of federal review, Perpetua Resources' Stibnite Gold project in Idaho has moved from advanced exploration to a mine development project poised to supply U.S. antimony by 2029. "After 8 years of extensive permitting review and over $400 million invested, it is finally time for the Stibnite Gold Project to deliver for America," said Perpetua Resources President and... Full story
Processing and refining innovators forge partnership to accelerate and diversify REE supply chains in the U.S. Ucore Rare Metals Inc. and Metallium Ltd. have entered into a binding 12-month technology collaboration agreement that could lay the groundwork for the first U.S. pathway capable of transforming a wide range of rare earth element (REE) feedstocks into separated oxides ready for use in high-tech, defense, and clean energy applications. This partnership integrates Ucore... Full story
Felix Gold's Treasure Creek project emerges as a near-term domestic source of this defense-critical metalloid. For more than a century, America has turned to the stibnite veins cutting across Treasure Creek north of Fairbanks, Alaska, when it needed a strategic supply of antimony. With global prices surging and U.S. policymakers prioritizing secure domestic sources, Felix Gold Ltd. is advancing plans to reestablish this historic mining district as a modern feedstock for a... Full story
Backing technologies to turn US processing streams into gallium feedstock. To help spur a domestic supply of a metal highly critical to America's high-tech, energy, and defense industries, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has unveiled an initiative to back companies that produce gallium from U.S. metal processing feedstocks. This Technology for Recovery and Advanced Critical-material Extraction – Gallium (TRACE-Ga) initiative w... Full story
White Mesa NdPr validated in EV motors, enough to power 1,500 cars. Breaking through one of the most critical links in rare earth supply chains, Energy Fuels Inc. has confirmed that neodymium-praseodymium oxide mined in Florida and Georgia and processed at its White Mesa Mill in Utah has been manufactured into permanent magnets for electric and hybrid vehicle motors, validating the first U.S.-to-market "mine-to-magnet" production outside of China. "We are excited to announce t... Full story
Subsidiary adds equipment to recover rare earths from shredded e-waste. Securing new industrial equipment to expand operations, American Resources Corp. subsidiary, Electrified Materials Corp. (EMCO) has expanded its established preprocessing work on magnets and batteries with a recycling platform that can pull rare earth elements from shredded hard drives and other electronic waste, supplying the material for refinement into ultra-high-purity oxides by another subsidiary.... Full story
Resulting Anglo Teck group would be a globally significant producer of copper, zinc, and iron. In a landmark deal that reshapes the global mining landscape, Teck Resources Ltd. and Anglo American plc have agreed to a $53 billion merger-of-equals to form Anglo Teck, a new global critical minerals champion with copper at its core. "We are unlocking outstanding value both in the near and longer term – forming a global critical minerals champion with the focus, agility, c... Full story
Energy Fuels produces first fully disclosed high-purity dysprosium oxide in the U.S. In another milestone along the road to establishing a complete rare earths supply chain in the United States, Energy Fuels Inc. has produced 99.9% pure dysprosium (Dy) oxide at its White Mesa Mill in Utah. "Energy Fuels' high-purity Dy oxide production is a major leap toward securing a U.S. supply of 'heavy' rare earth oxides for a variety of commercial and defense uses," said Energy Fuels... Full story
USGS draft elevates criticality of niobium, dysprosium, terbium found at Nebraska project. With the U.S. government elevating niobium, dysprosium, and terbium to the highest urgency tier on the federal critical minerals list, NioCorp Developments Ltd.'s Elk Creek project stands as a prospective domestic source of these minerals now classified among the most critical to national security and supply. Critical minerals underpin technologies ranging from advanced defense systems... Full story
Second offer elevates US Export‑Import Bank's support for Graphite One's all-American mine-to-battery supply chain plans to $895M. In another show of government support for the mine-to-batteries graphite supply chain it is developing, Graphite One Inc. received a letter of interest (LOI) from the Export‑Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to apply for a $570 million loan to help build the Graphite Creek mine project in Alaska. In combination with a $325 million loan off... Full story
Announces grants to support mining, processing, and manufacturing tech across critical mineral supply chains. In support of a national endeavor to establish a reliable supply of minerals and materials vital to America's energy, economic, and national security, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide nearly $1 billion to advance and scale mining, processing, and manufacturing technologies across key stages of the critical mineral supply chains. "For too long, the United...
Data centers have insatiable appetite for energy and mined materials. From training the latest artificial intelligence models to streaming the next blockbuster movie, data centers are growing so fast they already consume more electricity than some nations – and their appetite for critical minerals is just as staggering. The mineral demands begin with the data center itself – copper to move vast quantities of data and power, rare earth magnets in high-speed drives and coo...
Companies join forces to establish an all-American rare earths supply chain. To bolster its supply of made-in-America rare earth elements (REEs) – essential to the magnets it produces for AI infrastructure, robotics, drones, EV motors, hard disk drives, and other applications – Vulcan Elements Inc. has entered into a deal to source neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) and dysprosium (Dy) oxides produced at Energy Fuels Inc.'s White Mesa Mill in Utah. "We believe this col... Full story
Preliminary agreement with Critical Metals targets heavy rare earth supply for U.S. hub. Positioning its Pentagon-backed Louisiana plant for future supply, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has signed a non-binding agreement with Critical Metals Corp. for heavy rare earth concentrate from the Tanbreez project in Southern Greenland, the first step toward a 10-year offtake arrangement that could deliver up to 10,000 metric tons of concentrate annually beginning in 2027. For more than a... Full story
Copper, lead, potash, rhenium, silicon, and silver added; arsenic and tellurium removed. The U.S. Geological Survey is proposing to expand the official list of minerals deemed critical to the United States to 54, with copper, lead, potash, rhenium, silicon, and silver among the new additions. This draft 2025 list of critical minerals marks the first time copper, lead, and silver have been recognized as critical, reflecting their essential roles in U.S. energy, defense, and tec... Full story
Research agreement targets domestic processing tech and new applications. Seeking to break America's near-total reliance on foreign antimony, Locksley Resources Ltd. has formed a research partnership with Rice University to pioneer domestic processing technology and develop advanced applications for the critical mineral from its high-grade Mojave project in California. Across the spectrum of critical minerals, few illustrate America's dependence on foreign supply more starkly... Full story
