Albemarle gets DoD funding for NC lithium mining

Essential element company Albemarle has received approval from the U.S. Department of Defense for $90 million in grant money to back the restart of the Kings Mountain mine in North Carolina. The funding, provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, utilizing Defense Production Act authorities, will also help boost domestic critical material processing…

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Caterpillar marks 130 years in Wisconsin home

The year – 1893. Only 44 of today’s 50 states formed the union, and Grover Cleveland was elected the country’s 24th president. College basketball was in its infancy, holding its first official game. And the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company opened a new manufacturing facility in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to improve and expand its production facilities. Since this point…

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