mineral processing

American Peat Technology (APT) is a privately owned environmental technology company located near the peatlands of Aitkin County, Minnesota. Since 2003, APT has harvested reed sedge peat from a prior-converted peatland and transformed it into granular products for agriculture. APT serves the Soil & Plant Health, Water Treatment, Battery Mineral, and Spirits Distillation industries, and is a holding company for wholly owned subsidiaries including Headwater Technologies and Cuyuna Range Reclamation.

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Armor Mineral Company (AMC) is a raw material mining and processing company focused on sourcing critical minerals from domestic and trusted allied nations to support North America's industrial and defense base. It develops advanced materials, including combining boron carbide with high molecular weight polyethylene for lightweight composites, and pursues sustainable mining practices such as low-impact extraction and closed-loop water systems.

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Atlantic Strategic Minerals (ASM) is a US critical minerals processing company with mining and mineral processing operations in Southern Virginia. It operates the largest mineral separation facility of its kind in North America, located in Stony Creek, Virginia, and restarted its facilities in Dinwiddie and Sussex Counties in 2025. ASM processes both its own ore and third-party critical mineral feedstock, connecting domestic and allied mineral producers to US end-users in energy, defence, and advanced manufacturing.

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Australian Garnet is a single-source producer of premium alluvial garnet abrasives for abrasive blasting and waterjet cutting, operating fully integrated mining, processing, packaging and distribution at Lucky Bay in Western Australia. The company goes from mine to bag in 12 hours and produces unblended, silica-free garnet in grades including 20/40, 30/60, 80 and 120 mesh. It is certified to US Military Specification MIL-PRF-22262C, SSPC-AB1 Appendix B, and ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001.

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Blastrite is a manufacturer and distributor of granular abrasives with two mineral processing facilities in South Africa and sales and distribution infrastructure throughout Africa, the Middle East, SE Asia, the USA and Europe. It supplies the petrochemical, shipping, construction and mining industries with internationally approved and certified loose abrasives for surface preparation and abrasive blasting.

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NioCorp is a publicly traded mineral exploration company (Nasdaq: NB) developing the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in southeast Nebraska, a U.S. source of niobium, scandium, titanium, and magnetic rare earth elements. The project's 2026 NI 43-101 Feasibility Study defines an eight-product operation with a 40-year mine life. NioCorp has raised more than $500 million since January 2025 and received a $10 million Pentagon Title III award.

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Exterra Technologies is a Quebec-based mineral processing technology company. It develops next-generation processing technologies that help miners bring critical minerals to market faster, at lower cost, and with a smaller environmental footprint. Its platform is anchored in ARC™ (Acid Regeneration Cycle), a proprietary technology that recycles acids and bases used to extract metals from ore in a closed loop on site, around which it builds full processing flowsheets adapted to each commodity and ore type.

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Fortune Minerals Limited is a Canadian development stage mining and metals processing company listed on the TSX (FT) and OTCQB (FTMDF). It is focused on its 100% owned, vertically integrated NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper critical minerals project in Canada, comprising a planned open pit and underground mine and concentrator in the Northwest Territories and a hydrometallurgical refinery in Alberta. It also owns the Sue-Dianne copper-silver-gold satellite deposit and other exploration projects.

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