Burgex’s Jake Tanner examines what lies ahead for supply and demand across the commodity industries – not just for 2026, but well into the next decade and beyond. The clock on demand has started: record industrial draw for metals, a binding grid rule, a fixed highway window, and an EV market that’s maturing – not stalling – now define the…
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US Critical Materials and Idaho National Laboratory have entered into a Phase II Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to establish a pilot-scale processing plant capable of producing rare earths domestically.
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Rare Element Resources has been awarded a $4.4 million grant from the Wyoming Energy Authority for advancing the company’s rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant in Upton, Wyo.
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By Ramona Monroe As an international studies major in college, I asked myself why some countries are rich while others are poor. I do not recall my international studies classes asking or addressing why some parts of the world developed more quickly than others. Rather, it was a question born from experience. I grew up in western Washington and spent…
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