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In an era when supply chains are weaponized and stockpiles have quietly vanished, tungsten has moved from an obscure industrial input to the metal no serious power can afford to ignore. That transformation — from “very unsexy” to what one analyst calls one of the “sexiest” critical minerals in the market — was the focus of the Critical Minerals Institute’s Tungsten Masterclass, where the conversat...

The rare earth supply chain just moved a step closer to Western self-sufficiency. In a landmark deal, Australian Strategic Materials Ltd (ASX: ASM) will be acquired by Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU | TSX: EFR), creating what ASM CEO Rowena Smith calls a “rare earth mine all the way through to alloy champion.” The transaction, valued at approximately A$447 million, brings together ASM’s me...

Scandium Canada’s steady rise in the critical minerals landscape illustrates how a once-obscure metal could become essential to advanced manufacturing and stronger, more resilient supply chains. In a discussion with InvestorNews.com host and Hallgarten + Company Analyst Christopher Ecclestone, Guy Bourassa, CEO and Director of Scandium Canada Ltd. (TSXV: SCD) explained why scandium—still unfamilia...

In a world where even tiny amounts of rare materials can power major technologies, even the most ordinary rock can become strategically important. That is the wager Marcy Kiesman is making — not in a policy paper or a Silicon Valley pitch deck, but in the plainspoken cadence of a mining executive who still talks like someone who remembers what it’s like to carry a hammer into the woods. In a recen...

From the outset of the interview, it was clear this was no ordinary conversation with a junior mining CEO, but a moment staged by Christopher Ecclestone — Principal and mining strategist at Hallgarten & Company in London and host of InvestorNews.com interviews — to spotlight a project that might just redefine a historic gold district. Mike England, CEO and Director of Rockland Resources Ltd. (...

The future of critical minerals will not be decided in conference rooms or policy papers, but in jurisdictions where geology, infrastructure, and political reality align—and Namibia is increasingly one of those places. That was the clear message from a recent conversation between Jack Lifton, widely regarded as the world’s leading rare earths expert and Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute...

In the hidden corridors of Idaho’s abandoned IMA Mine, American Tungsten Corp. (CSE: TUNG | OTCQB: TUNGF) is laying the groundwork for a revival that its CEO says could mark the first new U.S. tungsten production in more than a decade, a development that has deep-reaching implications for strategic supply chains. American Tungsten Corp., a Canadian exploration company advancing the IMA Mine Projec...

Silver is being redefined. With prices recently pushing into the mid-$30s per ounce, China imposing new export controls, and Washington formally adding silver to its critical minerals list, this technology metal is moving from a traditional commodity into the category of strategic industrial input — a transition the broader market has only begun to absorb. That shift helps explain why shareholders...

Capital is telling a story about metals long before prices do, and by the end of 2025, that story had swelled to three-quarters of a trillion dollars. That figure—more than US$750 billion parked in metal and mining exchange-traded funds—is not an abstraction, according to Christopher Berlet, President and Chief Investment Officer of MineralFunds.com, but the measurable result of capital reallocati...

Control of raw materials is increasingly determining who survives in critical pharmaceutical supply chains, and Voyageur Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (TSXV: VM | OTC Pink: VYYRF) is positioning itself accordingly. In a recent interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Brent Willis, President, CEO, and Director of Voyageur Pharmaceuticals Ltd., outlined how the company’s acquisition of proprietary...

Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: HPY) may be small in market capitalization, but under its new leader the company is staking its claim at the center of one of the geopolitically charged commodities of our time. Stephen Gray, who only joined the Vancouver-area junior explorer as President and CEO in November, didn’t take the traditional route to the corner office. “I’m a mining engineer by backgrou...

From the outset of his conversation with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Anthony Durkacz pulled no punches: the fight his company has launched against alleged market predators isn’t just another legal footnote—it’s a battle for integrity on Main Street as much as for investors in speculative biotech. “This is a David versus about 13 Goliaths,” Durkacz said, describing Quantum BioPharma Ltd.&#3...

Greenland is not the new Saudi Arabia of rare earths. It is, in Jack Lifton’s bracing phrase, “a military objective for the United States” — and almost everything else you’re hearing about its mineral bonanza, he suggests, is “so silly that it’s beyond nonsense.”In an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) and a veteran of half...

The markets woke up to a headline that reads like a time-warp: U.S. strikes in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro reportedly captured, and Washington openly debating what it means to “run” a sovereign country—temporarily, of course. Reuters reported regional condemnation within hours, including Brazil warning the United States had crossed “an unacceptable line.” AP, in parallel, described a pre-d...

China’s manipulation of the rare earths market isn’t a policy glitch — it’s a geopolitical weapon. In a wide-ranging discussion with InvestorNews host Tracy Hughes, Jack Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), portrayed 2026 as a year in which “more of the same” from Beijing will keep Western planners off balance, with China “playing us” through erratic export permissions that t...

Jack Lifton, Co-Chair of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), settled into his chair with a frank verdict on 2025: “Was it a good year for rare earths or not? I don’t really think so, Tracy. I think there were too many choices presented to the public and a delusion, therefore, of well-focused capital in this segment.” Lifton’s measured skepticism contrasted sharply with the heady optimism that g...

From the opening lines of the InvestorNews.com interview, it was clear that CleanTech Vanadium Mining Corp. is staking a bold claim in America’s bid for critical mineral independence, a theme now underscored by recent strategic acquisitions and royalty expansions that together reshape the narrative around domestic fluorspar supply. Bekzod Kasimov, the company’s Business Development Manager, descri...

A mineral deposit that can pay you eight ways is no longer just geology — it’s risk management, and Nicole Brewster wants investors to hear that as plainly as possible. In an interview with InvestorNews.com host Tracy Hughes, Brewster — President, CEO and Director of Renforth Resources Inc. (CSE: RFR) — speaks from the particular perch of a junior explorer in Québec’s Abitibi mining district: clos...

The energy transition’s next choke point may be a sheet of glass. Homerun Resources Inc. (TSXV: HMR | OTCQB: HMRFF) is trying to make that glass story legible to investors by starting where glass begins: silica. The company describes itself as “building the silica-powered backbone of the energy transition” across four verticals—Silica, Solar, Energy Storage and Energy Solutions—anchored by a “high...

Cesium is what happens when a “minor metal” stops behaving like a footnote and starts acting like a constraint. On InvestorNews.com, host Tracy Hughes opened her conversation with Robin Dunbar—President, CEO, and Director of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF)—by placing the company where it actually operates: Manitoba, with a portfolio that spans nickel-copper-PGMs at Makwa (under an op...

Cesium is what happens when a “minor metal” stops behaving like a footnote and starts acting like a constraint. On InvestorNews.com, host Tracy Hughes opened her conversation with Robin Dunbar—President, CEO, and Director of Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM | OTCQB: MSMGF)—by placing the company where it actually operates: Manitoba, with a portfolio that spans nickel-copper-PGMs at Makwa (under an op...

Power, in the rare earth business, isn’t found in the grade in the ground—it’s found in what you can turn that rock into, reliably, at scale, in a jurisdiction that wants the mine built. That framing is why Jack Lifton’s conversation with Mark Tory—President, CEO, and Director of Defense Metals Corp. (TSXV: DEFN | OTCQB: DFMTF)—lands with unusual clarity. Tory is not a newly minted executive disco...

In Washington, “peace” is being marketed like a term sheet. In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, it is still a battlefield. In the critical minerals economy, ambiguity is always expensive. In a new InvestorNews.com interview for the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), Tracy Hughes speaks with Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, CMI’s co-chair, about a Trump-brokered Rwanda–DRC peace deal signed in Washing...

A new Ontario law is turning digital cleaning records from a niche software feature into a compliance requirement, and Visionstate Corp. (TSXV: VIS) is positioning its technology at the centre of that shift. Visionstate is a growth-oriented company that invests in the research and development of technology in the realm of the Internet of Things, big data and analytics, and sustainability. Through...

Spartan Metals Corp. (TSXV: W | OTCQB: SPRMF) is advancing its flagship Eagle Project in eastern Nevada, a past-producing tungsten district being repositioned as a multi-metal critical minerals asset centered on tungsten, rubidium, silver and copper. The company’s strategy is to build a portfolio of strategic defense minerals in top-tier Western U.S. jurisdictions, with a focus on tungsten, rubidi...