10/13/2026
One metal sits behind Americaโs steel, its batteries and its defense base, and almost none of it is made here.
That metal is manganese. No manganese has been mined in the U.S. in more than 50 years, and there is no domestic production of battery-grade manganese sulfate or electrolytic manganese metal. China dominates both.
Our ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง looks at what that means across three markets:
โ๏ธ Defense: armor, naval hull steels, aerospace alloys and soldier power
๐๏ธ Industrial: specialty steels and aluminum alloys
๐ Energy: the battery chemistries that rely on manganese
It also covers how the North Star Manganese Project plans to build an American supply chain, from a Minnesota deposit to a planned Gulf Coast processing plant.
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