A $12 Billion Critical Minerals Reserve Promises a Glut

Trump’s Most Self-Defeating Move on Rare Minerals

President Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. would create a domestic stockpile of critical minerals for civilian use — essentially a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but for lithium, copper, rare earths, and other rocks central to electronics and decarbonization.It’s one of many experimental and unusual steps that the administration has taken to boost U.S. mineral production over the past 13 months. But are any of those plans working? What coul…

Washington Launches $12B Rare Earth Minerals Reserve

The Trump administration is moving to create what is being described as a strategic stockpile for rare earths and other critical minerals, branded “Project

A $12 Billion Critical Minerals Reserve Promises a Glut

In the world of critical minerals, it’s either feast, or famine.

America Is Stockpiling Something Most Drivers Never Knew Could Stop Production

The United States has announced a Project Vault stockpile. Designed for industry, it will store rare earths and critical minerals. The move comes after China cut off access to rare earths last year. President Trump has signed an executive order establishing Project Vault. It’s being billed as the critical materials equivalent of the strategic petroleum reserve. Designed to ensure that American businesses and workers are never harmed by shor…