The power line responsible for the fire in Paradise, California, which resulted in 300 fatalities, was over 106 years old.

The emerging space economy will compete with Boeing and Airbus for the same critical materials and manufacturing capacity.

The US government is offering take-or-pay off-take agreements with minimum floor prices to new mining projects to guarantee a high internal rate of return.

A 1-gigawatt AI data center requires 50,000 tons of copper.

The United States lacks the domestic capability to build nuclear containment vessels, a skill possessed by countries like South Korea.

At the current deficit rate, the world's 600 million ounces of above-ground silver inventory will be depleted within three years.

The global silver market has an annual supply deficit of 200 million ounces, with consumption at 1.2 billion ounces and supply at 1 billion ounces.

The price of copper is predicted to double from its current level.

Boeing and Airbus have a combined backlog of one trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

Meta acquired WhatsApp, a company with only 12 employees, for $30 billion.

In April 2023, China announced it would restrict exports of critical materials to the United States, including samarium, gadolinium, and silver.

The US Department of Energy is directly investing equity into small resource companies in the US and Canada to help them develop new mines.

The United States has not significantly invested in upgrading or modernizing its electric grid since the post-World War II era.

It will take the United States at least 10 to 20 years to catch up to China's dominance in critical minerals processing.

Meeting projected copper demand requires five new world-class, tier-one mines to come online every year, but fewer than five are scheduled to open in total by the end of the decade.

A 1-gigawatt AI data center powered entirely by solar would require 35,000 acres of land, an area larger than the city of San Francisco.

The market for data center infrastructure and their required commodities is now one trillion dollars per year.

The world will need to mine 700 million tons of copper over the next 18 years, an amount equal to all the copper mined in the last 10,000 years, just to keep pace with GDP growth.

The construction of 15 gigawatts of new AI data centers annually will require 750,000 tons of copper per year.

The US government is fast-tracking permits for critical mineral mining projects that have been stalled for years.