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American Resources Corporation reports developments in the U.S. critical mineral supply chain, including upstream and downstream initiatives tied to rare earth elements, critical battery materials and circular feedstock sourcing. Company updates frequently reference its affiliated minority holding in ReElement Technologies, a rare earth and critical mineral refining business serving commercial and defense markets.
Recurring news themes include ReElement refining technology, intellectual property for lithium and mineral separation, customer and strategic-partner discussions, refinery buildout activity, and Electrified Materials recycling, pre-processing and conditioning capacity for magnets, copper, aluminum, ferrous metals and rare earth feedstocks. American Resources also issues shareholder updates on corporate initiatives and subsidiary-level growth platforms.
American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC), via its minority holding ReElement Technologies, announced a strategic collaboration and equity investment from Mitsubishi Materials Corporation on March 31, 2026. The partnership targets integrated, scalable rare earth and critical mineral refining across the United States and Japan, emphasizing feedstock sourcing, tolling, offtake, and commercialization of ReElement's chromatography-based refining platform.
The agreement aims to expand domestic refining capacity, leverage MMC's recycling infrastructure in Japan, and advance a modular, lower-impact alternative to conventional solvent-based refining.
ReElement Technologies (affiliate of American Resources, NASDAQ:AREC) expanded Phase 1 Marion refinery to four production lines with >16,000 metric tons annual separated oxide capacity. Initial production is expected in Q3 2026, with full Phase 1 commissioning through year-end and the project reported on time and under budget.
Lines process recycled and primary feedstocks for Nd/Pr/Dy/Tb, specialty materials, and semiconductor metals with purities up to 99.999%.
American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC), via its minority holding in ReElement Technologies, will participate in the 11th Annual Powering Africa Summit on March 19–20, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
Ben Kincaid, CEO of ReElement Technologies Africa, will join a March 20 panel on Critical Minerals in Africa from 10:45 AM–12:00 PM. Investors and partners may request meetings via LinkedIn.
ReElement Technologies (NASDAQ:AREC) will participate in multiple industry conferences the week of March 9, 2026 to advance customer, investor, and partner discussions on critical mineral supply chains and circular economy solutions.
Key appearances: Mark LaVerghetta at UNC Clean Tech Summit (Mar 9), Ben Kincaid at REMADE Summit (Mar 11), and Rhett Rezendes at a March 11 financing roundtable in Washington, DC.
American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) announced that Electrified Materials Corporation (EMCO) expanded pre-processing capacity at its Indiana facility to aggregate and condition magnets, copper, aluminum and ferrous feedstocks for rare earth and critical mineral refining.
The expansion will be supported by a subsidiary private capital raise under Regulation D and a State of Indiana recycling grant, and is positioned ahead of a planned spin-off of Electrified Materials as a standalone public company.
ReElement Technologies (portfolio company of American Resources, NASDAQ:AREC) filed a new patent application on March 3, 2026 to complement Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) flows by enabling chromatography-based separation and purification of lithium from brines.
This is ReElement's eighth next-generation patent application, field-tested with membrane concentration systems and aimed at producing ultra-high-purity, battery-grade lithium with lower environmental footprint.
American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) and affiliated minority holding ReElement Technologies will attend PDAC 2026 in Toronto from March 1–4, 2026.
Representatives will offer thought leadership and meet customers, investors, and strategic partners to discuss rare earth and critical mineral refining and recycling solutions.
ReElement Technologies (NASDAQ:AREC) expanded and commissioned advanced laboratory capacity and added technical hires to scale its rare earth and critical mineral refining platform on February 27, 2026. New instrumentation includes XRD, ICP-MS, ICP-OES and laser diffraction to support precision analysis and purity validation.
The lab upgrade supports commercial refining programs targeting gadolinium, gallium, germanium, terbium, and yttrium at purities up to 99.999%, and follows seven recently filed patents to advance its chromatographic separation platform.
American Resources (NASDAQ:AREC) and its affiliate ReElement Technologies will attend Investing In African Mining INDABA 2026 in Cape Town, Feb 9–12, 2026. ReElement executives will offer thought leadership, meet customers, investors, and partners, and pursue African partnerships to support critical minerals supply chains for U.S. and allied industries.
American Resources (NASDAQ: AREC) announced that its subsidiary Electrified Materials Corporation (EMCO) has commenced initial 2026 shipments of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries to its Noblesville, Indiana disposition site as of January 23, 2026.
EMCO is aggregating and preprocessing multiple lithium-ion chemistries, including LFP and nickel-/cobalt-bearing systems, and supplying conditioned materials to downstream partner ReElement Technologies for refining into ultra-high-purity, manufacturing-grade products to support a domestic circular critical minerals supply chain.