The Elements of Innovation Discovered
The Elements of Innovation Discovered
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Data center supply chains may fall apart due to lack of bismuth solder. A looming shortage of bismuth – a little-known but critical tech metal – threatens to derail AI data center development in the United States, underscoring the dangers of relying on China for vital mineral supplies. Over the past two years, Beijing has imposed restrictions on the exports of 16 minerals and metals critical to high-tech manufacturing, clean energy, and defense. While antimony for mil...
USAC rapidly advances an all-American antimony supply chain to counter China's export ban. As China's halt on antimony exports squeezes markets, United States Antimony Corp. (USAC) is mobilizing an all-American supply chain anchored in Alaska and Montana to mitigate the mounting risk to U.S. industry and defense. With a fully permitted and operating smelter in Thompson Falls, Montana, and plans to ship antimony-rich material from a previously mined site near Tok, Alaska,...
B-2 Spirit: "Built to evade radar, bound by the periodic table." Three decades after it first slipped past enemy radar, the B-2 Spirit remains one of the most advanced – and elusive – aircraft ever built. But while its silhouette has not changed, the battlefield beneath it has. Today, the stealth bomber gains its edge not just from design, but from an array of critical minerals pulled from a tightening global supply chain. On June 21, a formation of B-2 Spirits took to the... Full story
Perpetua and United States Antimony take first step into connecting links in Idaho and Montana. United States Antimony Corp. and Perpetua Resources Corp., companies at the vanguard of breaking America's heavy reliance on imports for antimony, are investigating the potential of integrating their expertise to establish an antimony supply chain in Idaho and Montana. Antimony has long been on the list of minerals deemed critical to the U.S. and is of high strategic importance to...
