Project Vault: Trump’s Bold Plan to Stop China From Starving Our Military

Project Vault: Trump’s bold plan to stop China from starving our military

Since the COVID pandemic, Americans have had a crash course on the importance of rare earth elements and recognized the unpleasant reality that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has a near stranglehold on their mining and processing. Practically everything we manufacture in the modern world, from fighter jets to medical equipment to cameras, now requires some quantity of these materials, and we are almost entirely at the mercy of the PRC for …

'Project Vault': Trump's Latest 'Manhattan Project' in The Race with China for 21st Century Leadership

President Donald Trump is taking an important page from World War II's Manhattan Project, when the United States raced to secure supplies of the rare element uranium needed to create the war-winning atomic bomb. When strategic amounts of the element

Ivanhoe Mines Joins White House Launch of Project Vault, Advances Critical Minerals Supply Negotiations

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN | OTCQX: IVPAF) Executive Co‑Chairman Robert Friedland attended the White House on 2 February for the launch of Project Vault, a US$12B initiative to establish a domestic strategic stockpile of critical minerals in the United States. The programme combines approximately US$1.67B in private capital with a proposed US$10B loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States to procure and store critical materials for civil…

The Critical Minerals Report (02.09.2026): Project Vault and the West’s Scramble for Rare Earths and Price Power

The past two weeks have laid bare a quickening scramble for control of critical minerals. In Brazil, officials touted the nation’s status as holding the world’s second-largest, rare earth reserves, as the United States and China jostle for access and the European Union increasingly joins the fray. Domestic Brazilian mining ventures, flush with ionic clay […] The post The Critical Minerals Report (02.09.2026): Project Vault and the West’s Scrambl…