Gallium: Highest supply chain risk of any element
By James B. Hedrick, U.S. Critical Materials Discovery of Gallium Its existence was predicted by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the periodic table • Discovered by French chemist Paul E. Lecoq de Boisbaudran in Paris, France • Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered it through a spectrascope seeing two violet lines in 1875 • The sample […]
Company Claims US’s Richest Rare-Earth Deposit In Bitterroot
A Nevada mining company claims to have discovered the highest-quality deposit of rare-earth elements in the nation at the far south end of the Bitterroot National Forest. U.S. Critical Materials Corp. bills its Sheep Creek holdings as “one of the highest-grade light rare earth projects in the U.S.,” containing “at least 12 of the critical […]
Company Aims To Mine Rare-Earth Metals In The Bitterroot
Just as the Biden administration and Congress are making major investments to expand the domestic critical minerals supply chain in the hopes of breaking our country’s dependence on China, one company believes the Bitterroot valley might be the best place to start. Credit: US Critical Minerals. Critical minerals provide the building blocks for many modern […]
Deeper Look At Sheep Creek Rare Earths
Latest lab results show high grades extend to depth at REE property in SW Montana. Assay results confirm that high-grade rare earth mineralization identified on the surface at US Critical Materials Corp.’s Sheep Creek project in southwestern Montana continues underground. Measuring the dip of a roughly four-foot-thick carbonatite vein enriched with rare earths and other […]
Sheep Creek Deposit’s Rare Earth Samples Exceed Highest Grades In US
US Critical Materials Corp. announced Tuesday that rare earth samples from 125 feet underground at its flagship Sheep Creek property in Southwest Montana report grades that exceed any other domestic rare earth resource. US Critical Mineral’s Crowley Adit #3 at Sheep Creek, Montana, showing banded carbonatite exposed near the top of the right rib. Credit: […]
Mineralization Confirmed at Depth Below High-Grade Surface Samples of 17.04% and 16.44% TREO at Sheep Creek
Vancouver, British Colombia and Salt Lake City, Utah–(Newsfile Corp. – November 29, 2022) – US Critical Metals Corp. (TSXV: USCM) (OTCQB: USCMF) (FSE: 0IU0) (“USCM“) and US Critical Materials Corp. (“Materials Corp.“) (collectively, the “Partners“) are pleased to report on findings from the fall exploration efforts at the Sheep Creek Rare Earth Project in southwestern Montana (“Sheep […]
US Critical Materials Explores Sheep Creek
Begins systematic investigation of overlooked rare earths project in SW Montana. To gain a deeper understanding of the high-grade rare earth mineralization coming to surface at Sheep Creek, and investigate the potential for a larger deposit of this group of technology elements, US Critical Metals Corp. and US Critical Materials Corp. are carrying out detailed […]
High-Grade Rare Earths Project Emerges
Sheep Creek rare earths project in Montana hosts 13 US critical metals With the transition to electric vehicles charged with low-carbon energy shining a spotlight on America’s need for secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals, the Sheep Creek project in southwestern Montana has emerged as a potential high-grade domestic source of nine rare earths […]
Academic Team Presents Sheep Creek Rare Earth Project at SEG 2022 Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia and Salt Lake City, Utah–(Newsfile Corp. – September 12, 2022) – US Critical Metals Corp. (TSXV: USCM) (OTCQB: USCMF) (FSE: 0IU0) (“USCM”) and US Critical Materials (“Materials Corp.”) (collectively, the “Partners”) are pleased to announce that their Sheep Creek Rare Earth Project was recently presented by Ms. Sarah Risedorf and Dr. Chris […]