Korea Zinc

And so we want to, we recognize, and I recognize more than anyone, that there's not enough money in my little account to go out and deal with all these problems at the national industrial scale.

But as we start to catalyze additional investment, as we've done with some of our other investments, and I'll point to the Korea Zinc deal we did for the first smelter in the country in 50 years, we catalyzed a lot of non-DOW, non-USG investment to make sure that this was a well-funded project and met the scale of the moment.

And so talking to investors, family offices, all those kind of folks, actually gets them excited.

And I've been really, really thrilled by their response to understanding the national security imperative.

So that's a JV between Century and EGA.

And of course, in zinc, zinc polymetallic, you've got Korea Zinc's project Crucible.

So there seems to be a lot more intent in those metals.

You know, at the risk of irking all the miners, probably a more direct approach would be simply to tax concentrate exports So the US is a net exporter of copper concentrate, and then it imports it back in again in the form of refined metal.

And, again, I've spoken to Stuart McWhorter about some of these on this show.

Korea Zinc in this deal that came to Clarksville and Gordonsville, they're doing this now with close to $7 billion in investments, 740 jobs.

Type 1 Energy going to Knoxville, 340.

330 jobs, $223 million in investment.

All right, critical mineral and strategic industries.

between july and last year of january of this year the federal government acquired equity interest in a series of strategically important companies including mp minerals lithium americas trilogy metals vulcan elements korea zinc usa rare earth the government also obtained warrants connected with vulcan elements re-element technologies and usa rare earth again in other words Taxpayer support was increasingly being structured not merely as grants or loans, but as ownership.

Government.

Okay, then there's U.S. Steel.

To Washington Examiner, for this article, when we invested and purchased and now are an owner of Trilogy Metals, around 10% plus additional warrant rights.

tied to access road approval for the Amber Mining District.

Then there's Korea Zinc, a significant equity in a Tennessee smelter refinery joint venture, reports of a 40% government position in the U.S. facility.

Additional mineral and processing names that appear in trackers, USA Rare Earth, Vulcan Elements, Re-Element Technologies, Atlantic Alumina, which produces gallium, and others.