Beijing's Current Heavy Rare Earth Restrictions Are a Permanent Strategic Shift, Not a Temporary Bargaining Tactic, Smith Warns Trump Administration is Moving Aggressively to Accelerate the Build-Out of Domestic Mine-to-Manufacturer Supply Chains Industry and the Pentagon Still Face Dangerous Shortages Until the US Production Comes Online, Including NioCorp's Elk Creek Project in Nebraska FoxNews.com today published an [...]
Issued on behalf of Greenland Mines Ltd. With palladium prices up materially year-over-year and Western governments mobilizing capital and policy around critical-minerals supply security, one of the largest undeveloped PGM-gold deposits on the planet is moving from technical study to active project advancement. Equity Insider News Commentary The Western critical-minerals capital cycle has shifted into a higher gear. Bank [...]
Issued on behalf of Western Star Resources Inc. A six-week sequence - DIBC application, Plutus mandate, CMETC-eligible flow-through financing - drops under eight months before the U.S. defense procurement cliff for Chinese tungsten American News Group News Commentary - The tungsten market has stopped trading like a niche industrial input. Rotterdam ammonium paratungstate - the benchmark intermediate - is changing hands [...]
Issued on behalf of Western Star Resources Inc. With Rotterdam APT near US$3,185/MTU, China limiting exports to 15 firms, and a January 2027 federal ban on Chinese tungsten in U.S. defense applications eight months out, the question is which projects can move quickly enough to matter. USA News Group News Commentary - The price chart no longer reads like a commodity story. It reads like a policy document. Rotterdam [...]
State to Provide ~$200 Million in Potential Tax Incentives for NioCorp Over First 10 Years of Operations Upon NioCorp Meeting the Program's Job Creation and Investment Requirements Signing of Legislation Supports Elk Creek Project Delivering ~450 Permanent Jobs, ~$6.59 Billion in Operating Expenses Over Project Life, and Hundreds of Millions in New State and Local Tax Revenue to Nebraska [...]
NioCorp CEO Mark Smith to Participate in a Fireside Chat at 10:00 AM ET and a Critical Minerals to Alloys & Vertical Integration Panel at 1:00 PM ET NioCorp Developments Ltd. , a leading U.S. developer of critical minerals, is pleased to announce that Executive Chairman and CEO Mark A. Smith will participate in Maxim Group's virtual "Mining The Industrial Supply Chain" conference on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Mr. Smith will [...]
FN Media Group Presents Oilprice.com Market Commentary In 1992, China's political leader Deng Xiaoping made a comparison that should've set off alarms across the West: "There is oil in the Middle East; there is rare earth in China."Instead, for the next 30 years, Western governments largely treated rare earth processing as low-value work - something they could hand off to whoever would do it cheapest. But then REalloys [...]
Reaching a Definitive Agreement Positions NioCorp to Potentially Sell All of its Planned Critical Minerals Products for the First 10 Years of Operations Agreement Envisions a Separate Potential Strategic Investment by Traxys of up to $30 Million in NioCorp Traxys Plays a Key Role in President Trump's Project Vault, a Strategic U.S. Government-Industry Partnership to Facilitate Sales of Critical Minerals Between Producers [...]
NioCorp Developments Ltd. announced voting result details from the election of directors at its 2025 Annual General Meeting , held on April 6, 2026 in Denver, CO. At the AGM, the following six nominees were elected as Directors of the Company to serve until its next annual meeting of shareholders, or until their successors are elected or appointed: Tony Fulton, Nilsa Guerrero-Mahon, Dean Kehler, Michael Maselli, Peter [...]
NioCorp Management and Special Guest to Provide Update on the Launch of Construction of Mine Portal at the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in Nebraska Register for the Free Webinar Here: https://www.redchip.com/webinar/NB/84221078668 NioCorp Developments Ltd. , a leading U.S. critical minerals developer, is pleased to announce that it will host a live webinar on Monday, March 9, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET. Headlining the [...]
Congressman Smith and Local Nebraska Officials Celebrate Inaugural Construction of NioCorp's Elk Creek Underground Mine Entrance in Southeast Nebraska Congressman Adrian Smith officially launched excavation last week of the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project mine portal during a tour and briefing on the project with county and local Nebraska officials. Congressman Smith is the senior member of the powerful U.S. House [...]
NioCorp's Recent $100 Million Capital Raise Fuels Advancement of the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project More than $500M in Gross Capital Raised in 2025/2026 Also Strengthens NioCorp's Position with the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. for Proposed Debt Financing "We Look Forward to Hosting a Formal Groundbreaking Ceremony Following Completion of our Overall Project Financing Effort," Mr. Smith said [...]