American Resources Corp (NASDAQ:AREC) said its affiliated minority holding ReElement Technologies Corporation has successfully purified tungsten concentrate to 99.9% purity, in what the company described as one of the only demonstrated domestic capabilities of its kind in the US.
ReElement processed tungsten concentrate grading approximately 28% tungsten using its proprietary chromatography-based separation and purification platform, which the company said is designed to handle a broad range of rare earth and critical mineral feedstocks. “Tungsten is essential to the defense industrial base, yet the US remains heavily reliant on foreign-controlled supply chains for refined material,” said Mark Jensen, CEO of ReElement Technologies. “ReElement has now demonstrated that its platform can separate and purify tungsten from mined concentrate to 99.9%+ purity.” The company said tungsten is used across defense and advanced industrial applications including armor-piercing munitions, missile systems, aerospace components, hypersonic technologies, and high-performance tooling
Jensen noted that while tungsten is not part of ReElement’s initial Phase 1 Marion facility buildout, the achievement establishes a pathway to add tungsten refining capacity as customer demand, prepayments, and commercial commitments justify expansion. Mark LaVerghetta, co-founder and board executive nominee to ReElement, said the development is about ensuring the US and its allies can access and control materials underpinning national defense and technological leadership. “ReElement’s refining-first model provides a new approach – one that we have already commercialized across critical minerals and is designed to scale with evolving markets, rather than replicating fixed, legacy, single-source systems that have proven unsustainable, high-risk, capital intensive, environmentally burdensome, and difficult to deploy.” American Resources said it continues to collaborate with global feedstock partners to…