en.Wedoany.com Reported - American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ: AREC) recently announced through its affiliated portfolio company, ReElement Technologies Corporation, that it has successfully separated and purified tungsten products with a purity of 99.9% from tungsten concentrate with an approximate grade of 28%, provided by its international mining partner. This technological breakthrough marks significant progress in commercially viable tungsten refining within the United States and provides a new pathway for establishing a localized critical minerals supply chain.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Fishers, Indiana, ReElement Technologies Corporation specializes in utilizing its proprietary chromatographic separation technology platform to extract high-purity rare earth elements and critical battery metals from various feedstocks. Its core separation and purification platform is based on ligand-assisted displacement chromatography, capable of operating in modular, flexible, small-scale facilities. It not only offers high selectivity and high recovery rates but also significantly reduces the environmental burden associated with traditional solvent extraction methods. The company is also the only producer in North America capable of producing magnet-grade heavy and light rare earth oxides and has signed multiple supply agreements with downstream companies planning to operate in the United States. Parent company American Resources Corporation is a critical mineral supply chain enterprise headquartered in Indiana, focusing on developing innovative feedstocks such as extracting heavy rare earths from coal waste. It owns over 30,000 acres of land in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana, and is estimated to control over 128 million tons of mine waste resources. Leveraging upstream waste resources and downstream purification technology, both entities have built a vertically integrated system from raw materials to refined products. This achievement in tungsten separation marks another successful validation of the platform's capability across diverse material types.

Tungsten, known for its extreme hardness and heat resistance, is an indispensable critical material in aerospace, semiconductors, and high-end equipment manufacturing. According to data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), China accounts for approximately 80% of global tungsten concentrate production, dominating the global tungsten supply. The United States has had no operating commercial tungsten mines since 2015, relying heavily on imports and scrap recycling for processed tungsten products, with an average annual refined tungsten import volume exceeding 6,000 tons. This technological breakthrough adds a strategic capability to ReElement's purification platform for separating high-purity tungsten from primary concentrates, providing technical support for enhancing the resilience of the U.S. defense and industrial critical mineral supply.

Mark Jensen, CEO and Chairman of ReElement Technologies Corporation, stated that while tungsten is not part of the initial production capacity plan for the company's Marion Phase I project, this technological achievement provides a clear pathway for adding tungsten refining capacity in the future, driven by growing customer demand, prepayments, and commercial commitments. Co-founder and Director Nominee Mark LaVerghetta noted that this technological breakthrough is not limited to tungsten itself but is more about ensuring that the United States and its allies can access, refine, and control materials critical to national defense and manufacturing strategic security. The company's "refine-first" model can dynamically scale with market changes, offering greater flexibility and sustainability compared to traditional fixed, capital-intensive smelting models. This technological achievement will initially be used to expand the application scope of ReElement's critical mineral purification platform, with the potential to empower the construction of a more resilient tungsten supply chain for the United States through the "refine-first" strategy in the future.

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