Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals
When Earth AI started hitting months-long delays in its search for critical minerals, it decided to take matters into its own hands.
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Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements
Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.
Inside a $1.1B deal to reshore critical minerals refining
Critical minerals startup Nth Cycle is betting that its modular approach to nickel refining can make the practice viable in the U.S. and Europe.
Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric
The administration’s $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China’s influence. But it also revels the direction of the global economy.
How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage
Transition Metal Solutions is applying a special cocktail to coax microbes into unlocking more copper from ore.
Sortera is turning America’s scrap aluminum problem into cash
Sortera has developed an AI-guided system to sort scrap aluminum by specific grades. The startup is building a second sorting facility in Tennessee.
U.S. and Australia sign $3B critical minerals deal
Leaders of the country’s governments announced they would work together to secure critical minerals supplies outside of Chinese control. The deal includes a new gallium refinery in Western Australia.