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OPEN OPEN OPEN Application for CRMA Strategic Project recognition is now open untill August 22nd 2024. Strategic projects are identified to make a meaningful contribution to the security of the EU's supply of Strategic Raw Materials and contributing to the CRMA benchmarks. Recognition of a strategic project aims to support an accelerated development, to support and strengthen the supply of CRMs to the European industry. More info on the application is available in the link below. MGE - Mining Governance Europe #CRMA

United States Department of Defense (DOD) - Accelerating Development of Domestic Lithium Carbonate Processing and Production On Aug 5th, the DOD announced an $11.8M award via the Defense Production Act Investment (DPAI) office to Lithium Nevada Corporation (Lithium Nevada), a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp. The award aims to accelerate the extraction and processing of lithium carbonate and directly supports the 2024 National Defense Industrial Strategy's objective to expand support for domestic production of critical minerals. https://lnkd.in/eBKm7rke

China to limit antimony exports in latest critical mineral curbs. China accounted last year for 48% of global mined output of antimony, a strategic metal used in military applications such as ammunition, infrared missiles, nuclear weapons and night vision goggles, as well as in batteries and photovoltaic equipment.

✈ "Sanctions on Russian titanium are more harmful to aerospace firms such as Airbus and Bombardier than they are to Russia's finances." 📢 During an interview with BNN Bloomberg yesterday, CRU Principal Consultant Ionut Lazar provided insights into the titanium market in light of Canada's sanction on Russian Titanium. 👇 To watch the full interview, please follow the underlying link 👇 #titantium #canada #russia

  Good interview by Jack Lifton of Rowena Smith regarding ASM's efforts to reestablish supply chains for #NdFeB magnets for the NAFTA region. It was good to hear about their progress after securing a $600 million loan from US EXIM for their 3,600 tons/year Dubbo Project.   Link: https://lnkd.in/dHNHjJyJ   POV: Unless you are looking to produce large magnet blocks, the older Transverse Die Pressing (TDP) technologies will be too labor-intensive to be profitable within the US or EU markets. So, it is crucial that we develop a more advanced near-net-shape production capability that will yield cost advantages over these conventional sintering processes.   #MERC #MCEIP #DOD #DOE #REE #NPLP #minetomagnet #rareearths #electricvehicle Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) Nihon Denji Sokki Co., Ltd. (NDK)

Attention is increasingly focused on a particular class of material. “Critical” and “strategic” raw materials are those that face supply risk either in their scarcity or their geographical concentration, and which the major powers require for their military sectors and for competitive advantage in tech industries. Right now, the race for critical materials is geopolitical: each major power wants to secure supplies in allied countries.

The neodymium magnet molds used by our NPLP magnet production system offer downstream producers the possibility of a near-net-shape (#NNS) capability, which promises cost advantages over conventional sintering methods. Our users can now fabricate magnets with complex shapes, reducing the need for additional machining of the resultant magnet blocks. #SupplyChain #NdFeB #neodymium #magnet #usjcjald #JALD #permanentmagnet #japanbusiness INDUSTRY 4.0

On Monday, the Minerals Security Partnership, a coalition of 14 nations and the European Commission, unveiled a new financing network at an event in New York to ramp up international collaboration and pledge financial support for critical minerals projects in the West. Today, Kamala Harris announced a set of polices aimed at increasing domestic production and the creation of a national stockpile of critical minerals--including #cobalt--in the US, to reduce dependence on China. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the US and the Chinese Communist Party recommended spending $1-billion to expand an existing National Defense Stockpile, an inventory of critical minerals managed by the Defense Department that is used to provide emergency access for defense purposes. https://lnkd.in/e6xxBZQG

🇺🇸 The U.S. continues to invest in domestic supply of defense minerals. 🇺🇸 Perpetua Resources Idaho was recently conditionally awarded up to $34.6 million in additional funding from the United States Department of Defense under the existing Technology Investment Agreement (TIA) through Title III of the Defense Production Act (DPA), bringing total DPA funding to $59.4 million. #antimony #criticalminerals #criticalrawmaterials #defense #supplychains #supplychains #MinedInAmerica https://lnkd.in/giPp44-Z

Pan Asia Metals (ASX:PAM) chairman and managing director Paul Lock joins Proactive's Tylah Tully live from the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) 2024 at the ICC Sydney at their exclusive podcast zone known as OnAir @ IMARC, sponsored by EMR Capital. The pair discuss the key messages the company is delivering at this year’s conference. Pan Asia Metals combines its proven track record in South East Asia with the promising prospects of #lithium initiatives in South America. PAM is cost focused, understanding that in the #globalmetalsmarket the leading factor of distinction is a project's position on the cost curve. Why? While #commodityprices go through cycles, project operating costs do not. Therefore, there is only way to survive the #commoditypricecycle and that is to be at or near the bottom of the cost curve. PAM’s projects are in Thailand and Chile, both low-cost regions which have established and emerging lithium... Watch at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors http://ow.ly/KGvk105Nmz9