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    Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken a “significant stake” in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, betting that the world’s largest space company could become a major driver of demand for critical minerals and off-Earth infrastructure. Hancock Prospecting said Monday it received an allocation…

    Colorado hydromet plant targets first separated heavy rare earth oxides in third quarter. USA Rare Earth has commissioned a hydrometallurgical demonstration facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, that is expected to de-risk the rare earth processing and separation technologies needed to…

    American venture capitalists, Japanese firms, and the Pentagon get behind Foundation Alloys Series A financing. For centuries, advanced alloys have been produced using the same fundamental approach – melting metals together and carefully controlling how they cool and solidify. Believing…

    Existing Northern Territory processing complex could accelerate commercial deployment of NVRO’s innovative metals recovery tech. NVRO Metals Ltd. (formerly EnviroGold Global Ltd.) has taken a major step toward commercial deployment of its proprietary metals recovery technology by securing an industrial-scale…

    Silver is caught between its industrial usage and its monetary reputation, as surging demand from solar panels and electronics tightens physical supply while investors continue to treat it as a precious metal tied to gold. Industrial demand accounts for just…

    A proposed West High Yield Resources (TSXV: WHY) magnesium mine in British Columbia remains stuck in limbo due to the objections of a U.S.-based Indigenous group. B.C.’s Court of Appeals last week allowed a temporary injunction from the province’s Supreme…