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Biotech, Market Opinion

Lixte’s Big Bet: Making Other Cancer Drugs Work Harder

Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIXT) is a Nasdaq-listed biotech with an unusually focused story: one main drug,…

December 9, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

The Critical Minerals Report (12.07.2025): How Washington, Brussels, London, and Beijing Are Rewiring the Critical Minerals Supply Chains

From Saturday, November 22nd through this weekend, the critical minerals story has been less about prices and more…

December 7, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Gold, Silver & Base Metals

Hallgarten on Centauri Minerals, the new Argentine Copper-Gold spin-out from Aldebaran Resource

Yesterday at the Resourcing Tomorrow conference in London, I ran into Christopher Ecclestone from Hallgarten + Company on…

December 3, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths

Washington’s New Critical Minerals List Puts Copper, Uranium – and Politics – at the Center of Global Supply Chains

Washington’s new critical minerals list quietly rewires the geopolitics of supply chains – and, strikingly, pulls the United…

December 1, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Minerals Report (11.23.2025): A US$100 Billion Commitment Here, Another US$1.1 Billion There – How Government Capital Is Rewiring Critical Minerals Finance

Apologies for the delay in this edition of the Critical Minerals Report (CMR); the past two weeks, from…

November 23, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Minerals Report (11.09.2025): Financing Critical Minerals 2.0 Through Government Equity and Private Capital

The critical minerals race accelerated on multiple fronts this week, with policy shifts and partnerships reshaping supply chains…

November 9, 2025
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Market Opinion

If I Had $1,000,000,000,000 — My Trillion Dollar Thought Experiment

When Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) shareholders approved Elon Musk’s latest compensation package — an equity-based reward that could,…

November 9, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths

Armed with Capital and Technology, Ucore Emerges as the West’s Command Center in the Rare Earth Race

Ucore Rare Metals, armed with novel separation technology, clinched deals with German and U.S. magnet makers, secured government…

November 3, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Minerals Report (11.01.2025): Trump-Xi Rare Earth Deal “Buys Time, Not Security” — While Copper Soars to New Records

The past week in critical minerals marked a significant recalibration of global supply chains and trade alliances, with…

November 1, 2025
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Minerals Report (10.24.2025): Follow the Yellow Brick Road — China’s Squeeze Turbocharges Western Resolve to Weaponize Capital

The past week delivered a cascade of strategic moves in critical minerals, underscoring an accelerating global realignment. In…

October 24, 2025
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Lixte’s Big Bet: Making Other Cancer Drugs Work Harder

The Critical Minerals Report (12.07.2025): How Washington, Brussels, London, and Beijing Are Rewiring the Critical Minerals Supply Chains

Hallgarten on Centauri Minerals, the new Argentine Copper-Gold spin-out from Aldebaran Resource

Washington’s New Critical Minerals List Puts Copper, Uranium – and Politics – at the Center of Global Supply Chains

Critical Minerals Report (11.23.2025): A US$100 Billion Commitment Here, Another US$1.1 Billion There – How Government Capital Is Rewiring Critical Minerals Finance

Critical Minerals Report (11.09.2025): Financing Critical Minerals 2.0 Through Government Equity and Private Capital

If I Had $1,000,000,000,000 — My Trillion Dollar Thought Experiment

Armed with Capital and Technology, Ucore Emerges as the West’s Command Center in the Rare Earth Race

Critical Minerals Report (11.01.2025): Trump-Xi Rare Earth Deal “Buys Time, Not Security” — While Copper Soars to New Records

Critical Minerals Report (10.24.2025): Follow the Yellow Brick Road — China’s Squeeze Turbocharges Western Resolve to Weaponize Capital

The Lifton Living Rare Earths Tree — Tracking the Companies That Actually Produce Rare Earth Metals and Alloys for the General Marketplace, Outside of China

Project Vault and the Price of Security — Lifton’s Plan for America’s Critical Minerals Reserve

Canada Backs First Phosphate’s Bégin-Lamarche Infrastructure with $4.8 Million

InvestorNews Member News

Greenland Mines Sarfartoq Nd-Pr Rare Earth Project Valued Up to US$2.05 Billion With Pre-Tax IRR of 118.6% and Significant Additional Upside Potential

Deep Sea Minerals Corp. To Attend DIB Accelerator 2026 in Philadelphia

Greenland Mines Delivers Landmark S-K 1300 Mineral Resource Estimate for Sarfartoq in Greenland; First-Ever Indicated Resource and First Combined Open Pit/Underground Resource for the Critical Nd-Pr Magnet Rare Earths Project

First Phosphate Files NI 43-101 Technical Report for Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for Bégin-Lamarche Igneous Phosphate Deposit

Argentina Metals Announces Appointment of Roger Clegg as CEO and Raymond D. Harari Transitions to President

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