USA Rare Earth, Inc.
A mining and manufacturing company building a homegrown American supply chain for rare earth elements — the metals behind the strong permanent magnets in electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, and defense gear. Founded in 2019, it pulls ore from the Round Top project in West Texas (named after the round-topped mountain it sits on) and runs a magnet-making plant in Stillwater, Oklahoma. A fun quirk: it aims to go "mine-to-magnet," turning raw Texas rock into finished magnets entirely on U.S. soil.