Brewster County, Texas Discovery Phase: A 353,000-acre ranch in Brewster County, owned by the state's General Land Office (GLO), has been confirmed to have rare earth mineral anomalies.
No Active Mining: As of late 2024 and mid-2025 reports, there is no active exploration or mining underway on the property.
Hurdles: The rugged terrain, remote location, and high extraction costs are significant challenges to near-term development.
Other Texas Activity: Nearby, the Round Top deposit in Sierra Blanca is a more advanced project, with a pilot plant operating and plans for future commercial mining of rare earths and lithium. MP Materials also has a rare earth metal production facility in Fort Worth, Texas, which uses feedstock from its California mine.
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James Kaufman, World News Report, today.
A large deposit of rare earth discovered in Texas.
Now, this discovery does not appear on the map you're looking at here.
This discovery was made on the border of Texas
and New Mexico in a county called Brewster County, Texas.
We're going to take a look at all
of the commercially operated rare earth mines in North America.
South America and it does not look pretty.
Again, not seen on the map here. We have a new discovery
and it looks like we found 353,000 acres
in Brewster County, Texas on a ranch owned by the
general land officer owned by the state itself.
It has been confirmed to have rare earth minerals
Throughout the acreage.
No active mining has started as a discovery
was recently made in late 2024 and more discoveries
in the area were made in 2025 this year.
The latest reports as of August suggest that there
is no active exploration or mining underway
on the property and the property has
not been leased by the GLO to a mining company.
The rugged terrain, remote location,
and high extraction costs were significant challenges
to near-term development in this new discovery
in Brewster County, Texas.
Now, nearby, seen on this map,
we'll call it number one here in Texas, we have the Roundtop
deposit in Sierra Blanca County.
It's a more advanced project, obviously.
They're working through a pilot plan
and have a small plant already in operation
and plans for a future larger commercial mining plant
for these rare earth minerals and lithium.
It's operated by MP Materials.
MP Materials also has a rare earth metal production facility
in Fort Worth, Texas.
It uses feedstock from its California mine.
The California mine seen here is only one of two
commercial mines in all of North and South America.
That is scary.
Now, the first new rare earth mine
to open in the U.S. in over 70 years.
The Brook Mine in Ranchester, Wyoming,
operated by Ramico Resources, was opened on July 11,
2025. They've just had their ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Although rare earth is not uncommon in Earth's crust,
concentrated deposits are rare.
An exploration development in the Americas
is occurring in only seven countries, including
Canada.
There are 132 rare earth projects total in North
and South America, ranging from just
prospecting to commercial production.
And you're seeing the only two commercial
producing rare earth mines here, one in the
Northwest Territories and one in California.
More than two-thirds of all rare earth activities
in the Americas, North and South,
91 projects are in Canada,
with more than half in the exploration stage,
which means commercial production is not occurring yet.
Eight are just doing, well, assessments.
Six are in advanced exploration,
and two each are in feasibility and pre-feasibility.
So out of the 91 projects in Canada,
only one is classified as commercially producing
in the Northwest Territory.
As it does with lithium,
Quebec hosts the majority of rare earth projects being worked
on in the country with 35 projects,
most of which are still in the exploration stages.
California is home to the United States only.
Producing rare earth mine
that's being operated by MT Materials.
It's called the Mountain Pass Mine in California.
It's just west of the border with Nevada.
Mining began there in 1952 by another corporation
that since went out of business.
Canadian prospects make up 52.6% of the total of all prospects in North
and South America.
U.S. prospects make up 28.9% of the total of all.
Brazilian prospects make up 13.2%
and Chilean prospects make up 5.3%
of the total.
The total projects are 132.
Again, these projects are in a total of seven countries in North
and South America.
Most of them concentrated in the four countries we discussed,
Canada, the United States,
Chile, and Brazil.
So, as you can see via my report,
the U.S. and the Americas have been outsourcing, meaning
purchasing, their rare earth minerals for decades instead
of developing their own infrastructure.
Leaving the Americas in more than a bind
if the producing countries decide to stop selling
these minerals to the Americas,
which is exactly what is occurring as we speak.
God bless, folks.
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