In short: Named as an example of the heavy-mineral-sand miners that produce monazite as a titanium byproduct — the feedstock Energy Fuels wanted to buy before it decided to own its own mines. His bet was that "if they had a choice between sending it to a US company or a Chinese company… at least some of them would send them into the US." No view on the stock.
Tronox, Iluka and Rio Tinto are named together as examples of the mining companies that dig heavy mineral sands for titanium and zirconium — and, as an unwanted byproduct, monazite. For twenty years that monazite was treated as radioactive waste; China then bought it from these producers around the world and turned it into a large slice of its rare-earth supply.
Energy Fuels' original plan was to buy monazite from exactly these companies, betting that at least some would prefer selling to an American buyer over a Chinese one. Then the monazite price spiked, and it decided to buy its own sand mines instead. No stance is taken on any of the three shares — they are context for where the raw material comes from and who controls it.
5:33And so all of the world's monazite tailings from titanium mining started to flow into China. And it supports — even I think today it probably supports 10 or 15% of China's rare earth industry is effectively tailings from titanium mining. And we realized that we could replicate that. And so we figured that if heavy mineral sand miners — think about like a Tronox and an Iluka, Rio Tinto, companies like that that have these heavy mineral sand mines — if they had a choice between
In short: A major component of the April 12 U.S.-Australia $3.5B critical-minerals commitment — A$849M in combined financing for the Tronox rare-earths refinery.
Tronox is getting a big slice of a U.S.-Australia funding package — about A$849 million toward its rare-earths refinery. Prins cites it to show the allied buildout is real and well-funded: it's not just the U.S. acting alone, but a coordinated push to stand up processing capacity in friendly countries.
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