Pete Hegseth is rebuilding American power by putting critical minerals at the center of defense, backing rare earth separation, magnet manufacturing, and domestic processing with executive action and DoW financing. National security starts in the ground and on the factory floor.
USAS and UAMY form a 51/49 JV to build an antimony processing plant in Idaho’s Silver Valley, converting Galena output into finished U.S. material. With 561k lbs of antimony in 2025 concentrate and missile production scaling, processing becomes the control point.
On Jan 14, 2026, the U.S. quietly shifted defense readiness upstream by tightening imports of processed critical minerals and derivative components. This isn’t a weapons ban but a supply-chain sovereignty move. Control materials, control production speed, priority, and power.
USGS concludes that silver should be added to the 2025 Critical Minerals list (alongside several other commodities) based on their quantified economic risk framework.
Greenland secures a major EU-backed mining deal, sidelining U.S. ambitions and opening the door to deeper ties with China as global powers race for Arctic critical minerals.
Canada is dominating the global race for critical minerals while the U.S. scrambles to catch up. From the Ring of Fire to national stockpiles, this is how Canada is securing the future of EVs, defense tech, and energy systems - one mine at a time.
China’s grip on critical minerals is cracking. America’s diving into the deep sea for cobalt, silver, and war fuel metals. Trump’s mining order triggers a seabed arms race. This isn’t green energy-it’s battlefield logistics underwater.
The AIRCAT Bengal MC is a 44-ton AI-driven warship powered by silver-heavy systems—sensors, batteries, circuits. Built for speed and autonomy, it’s redefining naval warfare and draining global silver supplies fast. Welcome to the Fourth Industrial War.
The US-China tariff war isn’t just trade drama—it’s the demolition of globalism. From AI to silver and rare earths, this is Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution in real time. Economic decoupling is the reset. And you’re already living through it.
Silver Gallium Selenide (AgGaSe₂) is buried in Category 6.C.4.b of the Wassenaar Arrangement’s 2023 Dual-Use Goods list, and it military applications are essential to all modern warfare.
The U.S. is launching a bold industrial strategy to counter China’s grip on critical minerals, emphasizing domestic mining, federal investment, and supply chain independence as national security priorities.
Humanoid robots are constructed from critical minerals like silver, copper, lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. As production scales, these resource demands raise concerns about sustainability and supply chain challenges.