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Cobalt & Bismuth
Reuters • March 19, 2026 • 6:05 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D ...

The United States and Japan announced expanded cooperation at a summit on Thursday, including Japanese investment of up to $73 billion in U.S. energy projects and an action plan to develop alternatives to China for critical minerals and rare earths…The two countries released an action plan to develop alternatives to China for critical minerals and rare ‌earths supply chains, focusing initially on price floors for a select group of minerals…They said they aimed to deliver "concrete, near-term results towards securing mutual supply chain resilience" and would discuss coordinated trade policies such as a border-adjusted price floor mechanism…They did not identify which minerals would be considered first for price floors, but the fact sheet listed 13 projects among those the governments intended to support, including ventures dealing with rare-earth recycling, nickel, gallium, lithium and fluorite…The countries also shared the text of a memorandum of understanding on plans to establish a Japan-U.S. working group to accelerate deep-sea mineral resource development…It said this would involve sharing information on deep-sea science and seabed mineral resource projects, including presentations on Japan's rare-earth muds project near Minamitorishima Island and polymetallic nodules project, to explore potential cooperation.

Fortune In The Media
YouTube • March 20, 2026 • 2:22 PM
Fortune Minerals CEO Interview

Resource Talks sat down with Fortune’s President & CEO, Robin Goad, for the better part of 2 hours to discuss everything about Fortune Minerals and the NICO Cobalt-Gold-Bismuth-Copper Project…Fortune Minerals is advancing its NICO critical minerals & gold project to a construction decision. The NICO Cobalt-Gold-Bismuth-Copper Project is an advanced development asset comprised of a planned open pit and underground mine and concentrator in the Northwest Territories and a dedicated hydrometallurgical facility in Alberta where concentrates from the mine, and other feed sources, will be processed to value-added products to provide a domestic source of three metals identified on both the Canadian and US critical minerals lists, and a highly liquid and countercyclical gold co-product to help mitigate critical mineral price volatility…Click on the blue title to watch interview.

For further information about the NICO Project and its Mineral Reserves, please refer to the Technical Report on the Feasibility Study for NICO, entitled "Technical Report on the Feasibility Study for the NICO-Gold-Cobalt-Bismuth-Copper Project, Northwest Territories, Canada", dated April 2, 2014 and prepared by Micon, which has been filed on SEDAR and is available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. DISCLAIMER Fortune Minerals Limited does not endorse or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any third party publication regarding the Company and accepts no liability for any direct or consequential losses arising from its use. The information contained in third party publications is subject to verification by the user and Fortune is under no obligation to provide, or comment upon, such publications. This communication is not, and under no circumstances is to be construed as, an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any securities. Any decision to invest in securities in the secondary market or otherwise should only be made after consulting the investor’s own investment, legal, accounting and tax advisors in order to make an informed determination of the suitability and consequences of such investment. CAUTIONARY STATEMENT ON FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION The materials appearing in this email contain forward-looking information. This forward-looking information includes, or may be based upon, estimates, forecasts, and statements as to management’s expectations with respect to, among other things, the size and quality of the Company’s mineral resources, progress in permitting and development of mineral properties, timing and cost for placing the Company’s mineral projects into production, costs of production, amount and quality of metal products recoverable from the Company’s mineral resources, anticipated revenues, earnings and cash flows from the Company's mineral projects, demand and market outlook for metals and coal and future metal and coal prices. Forward-looking information is based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the information is given, and is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. These factors include the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, uncertainties with respect to the receipt or timing of required permits and regulatory approvals, the uncertainties involved in interpreting drilling results and other geological data, fluctuating metal and coal prices, the possibility of project cost overruns or unanticipated costs and expenses, the possibility that production from the Company's mineral projects may be less than anticipated, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, uncertainties related to metal recoveries and other factors. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. Inferred mineral resources are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves. There is no certainty that mineral resources will be converted into mineral reserves. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking information because it is possible that predictions, forecasts, projections and other forms of forward-looking information will not be achieved by the Company. The forward-looking information contained herein is made as of the date hereof and the Company assumes no responsibility to update them or revise it to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law.
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