Critical Minerals Institute
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Critical Minerals Report (06.14.2026): Control is the New Commodity
“I didn’t think I would live long enough to see someone recommend that investors take a hard look…
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Canada’s Critical Minerals Moment in a Fragmenting World
Today, I am in Ottawa speaking about critical minerals. That may sound like a discussion about mining. It…
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Detroit’s Lesson for Critical Minerals Investors: Supply Chains Cannot Be Financialized Forever
Governments and financial markets cannot permanently suspend economic reality. Investors who wish to succeed in the critical minerals…
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The Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Industry Will Be Built by Evolution, Not Revolution
Investors looking at the rare earth permanent magnet (REPM) sector need to understand a simple reality: the next…
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China’s Rare Earth Playbook: Status‑Quo Stability, Crisis‑Driven Leverage, and the Global Race to Respond
For more than a decade, analysts have warned that the world’s dependence on China for rare earths represents…
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Rebuilding the American Rare Earth Industrial Base
The rare earth supply chain has become one of the most strategically consequential—and structurally misunderstood—industrial systems in the…
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The Chemistry of Reality and the Rise of Rare Earth Wish Factories
“The chemistry and metallurgy dictate the flowsheet — not investor enthusiasm.” — Jack Lifton, Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Critical…
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Jack-in-the-Stox: Quantum Critical Metals’ Quebec Gallium-Cesium Discovery
In this ongoing “Jack-in-the-Stox” Q&A series, Jack Lifton examines the companies, technologies, and geopolitical realities shaping the global…
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Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) Summit 5: Critical Minerals and the New Industrial Order
The ballroom at Toronto’s historic National Club felt less like a conventional mining conference and more like a…
