Critical Minerals and Rare Earths
Boron One Produces Commercial-Grade Colemanite Concentrate at Piskanja
Boron One Holdings Inc. (TSXV: BONE) reported producing commercial-grade colemanite concentrate from test material sourced from its Piskanja boron project in Serbia. The latest testing incorporated representative amounts of waste rock expected to enter the processing stream during potential mining. Boron One said the result more closely reflects anticipated run-of-mine conditions than its previous work.…
Nevada Organic Phosphate Extends Strike at Murdock Mountain
Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. (CSE: NOP; OTCQB: NOPFF) reported new assay results on August 26, 2026 from hole MM26-10, a step-out drilled 1.5 kilometers along strike from previously tested ground at its Murdock Mountain phosphate project in northeast Nevada. The hole returned 10.89% P2O5 (phosphorus pentoxide, the standard measure used to express phosphate rock grade)…
What is Antimony Used For and Why is China’s Export Ban Significant?
Antimony is one of those minerals most people have never heard of until suddenly they can’t stop hearing about it. A little-known metal used in everything from ammunition to flame retardants, antimony became a flashpoint in US-China trade tensions starting in August 2024, when Beijing announced export restrictions that exposed a genuine vulnerability in the…
Irruptive Metals Reports 795.2 Meters at 0.66% CuEq at Pimentón
Irruptive Metals Corp. (TSXV: IRR) reported final assay results from its first diamond drilling campaign at the Pimentón copper-gold project in central Chile, led by a 795.2-meter mineralized interval. Hole IMP002 returned 795.2 meters grading 0.66% copper equivalent from 167 meters to the end of the hole at 962.2 meters. The interval averaged 0.31% copper…
What is Vanadium Used For?
Vanadium is not a household name the way lithium or cobalt has become, but it plays two distinct and important roles in the modern economy: strengthening the steel that underpins global construction, and — increasingly — storing renewable energy at grid scale through a battery technology built specifically around vanadium’s unique chemistry. Its addition to…
What is Tungsten Used For and Why is it Strategic?
Tungsten is a small commodity by overall market size, but it has become one of the most closely watched critical minerals in global policy circles — described by one industry expert as “a strategic choke point in the critical minerals supply chain.” China’s export restrictions, imposed in stages since February 2025, sent prices up an…
What is Graphite Used For and Why is it a Critical Mineral?
Lithium gets its name attached to the batteries that power electric vehicles, but graphite quietly makes up a far larger share of every battery cell by weight. Despite being less discussed than lithium, cobalt, or nickel, graphite carries the highest supply-risk score of any battery mineral according to recent policy analysis — and China’s dominance…
Crawford Nickel Clears Federal Review Under New Impact Assessment Act
Canada Nickel Company (TSXV: CNC; OTCQX: CNIKF) has cleared one of the largest regulatory hurdles standing between its Crawford Nickel Project and construction. On July 31, 2026, the company reported that Canada’s Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature issued a positive Decision Statement for Crawford, federal sign-off confirming the project can proceed under environmental…
What Are Critical Minerals and Why Do They Matter?
The term “critical mineral” has moved from a niche policy phrase to one of the most consequential concepts shaping global mining investment. Governments across North America, Europe, and Australia now maintain official lists of minerals deemed essential to their economic and national security — and that designation carries real weight, triggering federal funding, streamlined permitting,…
What Are Rare Earth Elements and Where Do They Come From?
Rare earth elements rarely make headlines on their own merits — until a supply disruption threatens to shut down car factories, defense production lines, or electronics manufacturing. That is exactly what happened in April 2025, when China introduced export controls on seven rare earth elements that triggered factory shutdowns across the US, Europe, and Japan…
