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Technology Metals Report (05.24.2024): China’s Plan for Record Cobalt Purchases & U.S. Defense Companies to Source Critical Minerals Domestically

Welcome to the latest issue of the Technology Metals Report (TMR), brought to you by the Critical Minerals…

Tracy Hughes

May 24, 2024
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Materials: A Root Cause of the Decline of American Manufacturing Pre-eminence

Why has China become the dominant player in manufactured goods requiring non-fuel natural resources? Has the American governing…

Jack Lifton

July 19, 2021
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Critical Materials for the Two American Economies, The Military and the Consumer

Today’s demand for critical technology enabling materials was originally brought about by (industrial) policy driven military procurement during,…

Jack Lifton

June 15, 2021
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths

The Rare Earths War

Technology Metals Show host Tracy Weslosky moderates a timely discussion on how China poses a serious threat to…

InvestorNews

August 20, 2020
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Critical Minerals & Rare Earths, Market Opinion

Jack Lifton on Defense Department’s $2 billion spending budget for rare earths

“The US Defense Department has announced last week that it will seek $1.7 billion for rare earths purchases…

InvestorNews

June 2, 2020
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InvestorNews Interviews

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Jack Lifton Warns Gallium Scarcity Imperils America’s Chip Ambitions

July 1, 2025

Sleeping on Tungsten—America’s Hidden Armor and Critical Minerals Crisis

June 29, 2025

How CVMR’s Kamran M. Khozan Is Rewiring the Global Critical Minerals Economy

June 26, 2025

Voyageur Advances Mine-to-Bottle Strategy for Critical Mineral Barium and Iodine Contrast Products

June 26, 2025