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Gallium rarely headlines a North American rare earths story. At Volta Metals Ltd.’s (CSE: VLTA | OTCQB: VOLMF) Springer deposit in Ontario, however, it may become the feature that changes the scale and strategic importance of the entire project.Speaking with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Volta Metals President, CEO and Director Kerem Usenmez outlined a series of developments now converging at Springer: continuing high grade...

In a recent interview with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Robin Dunbar, President, CEO and Director of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF), and Brandon Smith, Chief Development Officer, discussed the company’s new joint venture with Avenir Minerals Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, at the Falcon West cesium project in southeastern Manitoba.“Normally, with an extremely large com...

President Donald Trump’s July 20th executive order arrived at a consequential moment for American Tungsten Corp. (TSXV: TUNG | OTCQB: TUNGF | FSE: RK90). The company is advancing the past-producing IMA Mine in Idaho just as Washington is demanding greater visibility into defense supply chains and encouraging contractors to qualify new domestic sources of critical materials.In a recent InvestorNews interview, Tracy Hughes spok...

Strategic importance is a political designation; price is a market fact. Much of today’s critical minerals policy proceeds as though the first can compensate for uncertainty about the second. It cannot. Copper and gold have visible reference markets. Terbium, tungsten and many materials now indispensable to defense, robotics and advanced manufacturing do not.The International Energy Agency has described reliable price benchma...

The artificial intelligence boom is usually measured in chips, data centres, and soaring technology valuations. Terry Lynch, CEO and Director of Power Metallic Mines Inc. (TSXV: PNPN | OTCQB: PNPNF), argues that its most fundamental requirements begin much further down the supply chain—with power and the metals needed to deliver it.“One of the best ways—the most, I believe, asymmetric ways—to play AI is to b...

Spartan Metals Corp. (TSXV: W | OTCQB: SPRMF | FSE: J03) has assembled two very different tungsten opportunities in the American West: a large, comparatively advanced deposit in New Mexico and a group of past-producing mines in Nevada where exploration continues to expand the known mineralized footprint.In a recent InvestorNews interview, Tracy Hughes spoke with President, CEO and Director Brett Marsh about why he built Spartan aro...

Historical tailings, high-grade exploration and a streamlined Ontario permitting framework are giving Nord Precious Metals several potential routes toward production.For Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. (TSXV: NTH | OTCQB: NPMMF), the next chapter of Ontario’s historic Gowganda Silver Camp may begin not underground, but at the surface. In a recent InvestorNews interview with host Tracy Hughes, Chairman and CEO Frank Basa outl...

In a recent InvestorNews interview, host Peter Clausi spoke with Marcy Kiesman, CEO and Director of Quantum Critical Metals Corp. (TSXV: LEAP | OTCQB: ATOXF), about the Company’s efforts to recover gallium, rubidium, cesium and other critical minerals from mica.Mica is often discarded into tailings because its light, flaky structure makes it difficult to handle and potentially harmful to the surrounding environment. Quantum b...

Six months into his tenure as CEO, Mark Wall is moving American Rare Earths Limited (ASX: ARR | OTCQX: ARRNF | ADR: AMRRY) toward a more distinctly American future. The Company’s assets are in the United States, Wall has relocated there and the process of pursuing a Nasdaq listing has begun.In an interview with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Wall described the transition as a natural extension of the Company’s flagship...

The central challenge facing most critical minerals developers is no longer proving that their commodity matters. It is financing the long and expensive stretch between discovery and construction. First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS | OTCQX: FRSPF | OTCQX ADR: FPHOY | FSE: KD0) has strengthened its answer to that challenge with an oversubscribed private placement and a growing network of government, financial and industrial suppo...

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSXV: UCU | OTCQX: UURAF) has reached two important milestones in its effort to establish a commercial rare earth separation business in North America: the production of 99.9% pure dysprosium oxide from real-world ionic clay concentrate and a new relationship with Sumitomo Corporation that connects feedstock supply, processing and prospective Japanese customers.In a recent interview with Jack Lifton, Uc...

As tungsten emerges as one of the most strategically important critical minerals, investors are paying closer attention to the limited number of advanced projects positioned outside China. During a recent InvestorTalk hosted by InvestorNews, Stephen Gray, President, CEO and Director of Fox Tungsten Ltd. (TSXV: FOXT), discussed the company's flagship Fox Project in southern British Columbia, its fully funded exploration program, and...

"The conversation is shifting from owning deposits to owning capabilities." That observation from Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) Co-Chair Jack Lifton may have been the defining takeaway from this week's Critical Minerals Report podcast.Joining me for this edition were CMI Co-Chairs Jack Lifton and Melissa "Mel" Sanderson, who examined one of the busiest weeks the critical minerals sector has seen this year. From North American t...

Australia has long been recognised for its world-class hard rock rare earth deposits, but Australian Rare Earths Limited (ASX: AR3) is pursuing something fundamentally different. The company's Koppamurra Project in southeastern South Australia is one of the very few ionic adsorption clay rare earth deposits identified outside Asia—a geological setting that could ultimately prove strategically significant for Western supply ch...

The rare earth sector has no shortage of promising deposits. What separates the leaders is the ability to demonstrate that a project can move beyond geology and into production.That was the central message from Mark Tory, President, CEO and Director of Defense Metals Corp. (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF), during a recent InvestorNews interview with Tracy Hughes."We've got a great deposit," Tory said. "Mother Nature's blessed us with th...

The conversation surrounding critical minerals has traditionally focused on lithium, rare earth elements, graphite, and copper. Yet one of the most important materials enabling the next generation of artificial intelligence, renewable energy, advanced electronics, and photonics has largely remained outside the spotlight—high-purity silica.That may be beginning to change.In a recent interview with InvestorNews, Brian Leeners, ...

The Critical Minerals Report (CMR) Podcast is a new, twice-monthly series produced by the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), examining the economic, geopolitical, and industrial forces shaping the global critical minerals economy. Hosted by Tracy Hughes, Co-Founder of CMI and CEO of InvestorNews Inc., the podcast features regular commentary from CMI Co-Chairs Jack Lifton and Melissa "Mel" Sanderson.Lifton, who also serves as Co-Fou...

When Prime Minister Mark Carney highlighted First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS | OTCQX: FRSPF | OTCQX ADR: FPHOY | FSE: KD0) during discussions surrounding the newly expanded G7 Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance, it marked far more than another mention of a Canadian mining company.It signaled that the global conversation around critical minerals is evolving from simply identifying resources to securing entire ...

For West High Yield Resources Ltd. (TSXV: WHY), a recent British Columbia court decision may prove to be one of the most significant developments in the company's history.In a recent InvestorNews interview, Barry Baim, Director of West High Yield Resources, discussed the dismissal of a judicial review that had challenged the provincial government's decision not to require a separate environmental assessment for the company's Record...