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American Resources Corp CEO Mark Jensen joined Steve Darling to announce that its subsidiary, ReElement Technologies Corporation, has successfully developed commercial protocols to produce ultra-high-purity germanium from both recycled and ore-based feedstocks. The company has achieved greater than 99.9% purity and engineered its commercial processes to meet growing demand for germanium products with purities between 99.9% and 99.999%. Read More

Listen in as Nico sits down with Mark LaVerghetta, co-founder of ReElement Technologies, a company turning the coal industry on its head by extracting critical minerals from coal’s waste stream — and doing it cleaner and cheaper than China. Born from a contrarian bet on distressed coal assets, ReElement is now on the frontlines of the U.S. effort to onshore mineral refining and reduce our dependence on geopolitically fragile supply chains. Listen Now

In today’s world, where demand for critical minerals is accelerating due to advances in both commercial technology and defence applications, such dependency is not only an economic liability — it is a national security risk. The US cannot afford not to have an independent critical mineral supply chain. Read more

Prices for lithium, a soft, silvery-white metal used in batteries, have been a casualty of slowing expectations for electric vehicle growth, perhaps providing long-term investors with attractive entry points.The price for battery-grade lithium carbonate traded in China, the world's biggest electric vehicle market and the dominant player in the lithium supply chain, hit its lowest point in four years in April. Read more

New rules requiring firms in China to get a license before exporting some rare earth elements are bolstering plans to establish rare earth processing in other countries. The US and European Union are eager to support these projects, but new producers still face a difficult path forward. Read more

As part of its push to make mineral mining a pillar of its otherwise hydrocarbon-dominated economy, Saudi Arabia is investigating how to increase extraction by recycling mining waste. Read more

One of the major knocks on the electric vehicle revolution is that batteries pose a massive environmental problem, because of how their ingredients are sourced and how they are disposed of at the end of their life. To counter this, the cleantech sector is vying to spin up modern, efficient battery recycling to break down old batteries and pull out the materials to build new ones. Read more

China's trade restrictions on strategic minerals are starting to hit Western companies where it hurts.Blaming Beijing's curbs on antimony exports announced in August, German chemicals and consumer goods heavyweight Henkel (HNKG.DE), opens new tab told customers last month it had declared force majeure and suspended deliveries of four types of adhesives and lubricants widely used by automakers, according to a Nov. 8 letter to clients reviewed by Reuters. Read more

Water is the mortal enemy of any electrical system. Floodwater is a special concern for any vehicle’s electronics and electrical systems even if it was submerged for only a short time.In the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and smaller storms during the summer, including in California, people ask what impact these storms will have on the destroyed cars, trucks and buses, and what it means for recyclers. Read more

When it comes to making batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), experts say China has as much as a 15-year head start on the rest of the world. Beijing’s stranglehold over the mining and refining of the rare earth materials used in this technology is an increasing concern for U.S. officials and it is partly why the Biden administration pledged $62 million toward EV battery recycling initiatives. Read more