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04.03.26 - 12:03
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Ionic Mineral Technologies Appoints Michael Wright as Chief Development Officer — Mining (Business Wire)
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Veteran project leader with $6B+ delivery experience to run Silicon Ridge scale-up and commercialize one of America's largest halloysite hosted polymetallic IAC-Plus critical-metals and rare-earth deposits.PROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#IonicMT--Ionic Mineral Technologies, LLC (“Ionic MT”) today announced the appointment of Michael Stephan Wright as Chief Development Officer — Mining, effective March 8, 2026. Mr. Wright will report to CEO Andre Zeitoun and lead the Company's execution organization for the Silicon Ridge scale-up, including Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) strategy, permitting and regulatory execution, resource development, extraction and concentration operations, and stakeholder engagement.
Mr. Wright brings more than 25 years of global project-delivery experience, having advanced large-scale mining and processing programs valued up to $6 billion. Most recently, as Vice President — Projects at Perpetua Resources, he led the ~$2.2 billion Stibnite Gold ...
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10.12.25 - 01:00
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US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals (ZeroHedge)
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US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com
The U.S. Army will develop small-scale refineries to ensure domestic supply of critical minerals for defense and military purposes as the United States and the Western allies look to reduce their dependence on China.
“We need to come up with a way to make our own (critical minerals) domestically that we can actually monitor and control within our borders,” Mark Mezger, a munitions procurement adviser for the U.S. Army, told Reuters.
The Army is currently developing a project with the Idaho National Laboratory and gold mining company Perpetua Resources to process antimony.
In September, the U.S. Army's Joint Program Executive Office Armaments and Ammunition (JPEO A&A) joined Perpetua Resources Inc. to launch the Stibnite Gold Project in central Idaho. The project seeks to redevelop an abandoned mine site in Stibnite for gold and antimony sulfide, a critical component used in ammun...
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