{"id":561410,"date":"2026-02-02T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:45:24","slug":"rare-earth-miners-jump-as-trump-is-eyeing-mineral-stockpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561410\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare earth miners jump as Trump is eyeing mineral stockpile"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n

Alex Wong | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shares of U.S.-listed rare earth miners jumped Monday after news that President Donald Trump<\/a> is preparing a sweeping plan to build a strategic stockpile of critical minerals.<\/p>\n

The proposal, known as Project Vault, would launch a first-of-its-kind strategic critical minerals stockpile designed for the U.S. private sector, according to a White House official. The plan pairs $1.67 billion in private capital with a $10 billion loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the person said. Trump’s move is aimed at cutting America’s dependence on China for materials essential to electric vehicles, defense systems and advanced technology.<\/p>\n

MP Materials<\/a>, the operator of the Mountain Pass mine in California, surged 6% in early trading Monday. USA Rare Earth<\/a> and Critical Metals Corp.<\/a> rallied 13% and 12%, respectively, as investors bet the initiative could accelerate domestic demand and government-backed financing for the sector.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg News<\/a> first reported on the proposal earlier Monday. <\/p>\n

USA Rare Earth has already held discussions with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick<\/a>, pitching its domestic mining and magnet assets to the federal government. Those talks would ultimately lead to a proposed deal that could provide the company with about $1.6 billion in funding, subject to certain conditions, and include a U.S. government equity stake.<\/p>\n

The moves build on a more direct role Washington has begun taking in the sector. The Department of Defense struck a landmark agreement<\/a> with MP Materials last summer that included an equity stake, price floor, and long-term agreement to buy a specific amount of rare earth minerals and magnets.<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Spencer Kimball contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[9167,7789,133,76,81,152039,77,69,51,3346,135,40176,50,80,134,52,238738,3642],"class_list":["post-561410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-breaking-news-investing","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-critical-metals-equity-warrant-exp-23rd-feb-2029","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-investment-strategy","tag-markets","tag-mp-materials-corp","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-stock-markets","tag-top-stories","tag-usa-rare-earth-inc","tag-wall-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116002286792877911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}