The Global Leader in Rare Earths
We are creating a global rare earth value chain designed to deliver critical materials for advanced technologies, resilient supply chains, and long term economic and national security.
What We’re Building
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USA Rare Earth is building a fully integrated rare earth value chain
The chain spans resource development, processing and separation, metals and alloy production, and permanent magnet manufacturing. Our operations across the United States, including Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and the United Kingdom, form an end-to-end platform from the Round Top deposit to magnet production at scale.
Our Round Top deposit in Hudspeth County, Texas hosts 15 of the 17 rare earth elements, including all heavy rare earths (dysprosium, terbium, yttrium, and others) — the most critical elements for high-temperature defense and industrial magnet applications. The deposit also contains critical minerals including gallium, hafnium, and zirconium. USAR controls the mining rights and is advancing toward commercial extraction, with processing and separation operations to be co-located in Texas.
Since 2020, USAR has developed in-house rare earth processing capabilities at our fully equipped Wheat Ridge, Colorado R&D laboratory. We have advanced beyond bench-top experiments to pilot-scale validation, including design of solvent extraction circuits (SX) — the primary separation technology for our commercial operations. This work accelerates the pre-feasibility study and engineering for the Round Top deposit and informs the design of our demonstration-scale heap leach and hydrometallurgical processing facility in Texas.
LCM, a wholly-owned USAR subsidiary, is a strategic asset and the only commercial non-scale rare earth metal making, alloy production, and strip casting facility for permanent magnets outside of China. Its capabilities enable production of the specializes metals and alloys required for high-performance permanent magnets. It closes the critical “alloy gap” in the mine-to-magnet value chain — the step between separated rare earth oxides and finished magnet production. Decades of expertise in rare earth metallurgy, combined with established customer relationships and UK-based production, ensures allied supply chain integrity from ore to alloy. Learn more by visiting: Lesscommonmetals.com opens in a new tab
USA Rare Earth operates a 310,000 sq. ft. sintered NdFeB permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Our Innovation Lab, commissioned in January 2025, has successfully produced prototype sintered permanent magnets and is actively prototyping magnet-grade recipes for customers. Commissioning of production Line 1a (1,200-metric-ton annual capacity) began in Q1 2026. At full capacity, USAR will produce 10,000 metric tons of magnets annually — hundreds of millions of magnets for semiconductors, defense, automotive, energy, robotics, and healthcare customers.