The Building Blocks of the Future
Metals & Strategic Uses
At Liberate Minerals, our refining technology unlocks a suite of critical minerals, rare earths, and strategic metals essential to modern life, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and defence. Each metal we produce plays a vital role in building the technologies that shape the future.
Rare Earth Elements (REE)
Primary Uses:
High-performance magnets, lasers, catalysts, wind-turbine generators, EV motors, and precision guidance systems.
Key Elements:
Neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and yttrium — the heavy, magnet-critical rare earths vital for high-temperature and high-efficiency applications.
Why It Matters:
Heavy rare earths underpin modern electronics, clean-energy systems, and defence technologies — yet more than 90% of global refining occurs in China.
Recent export restrictions have intensified supply uncertainty, exposing manufacturers and governments to severe strategic risk.
Lithium (LCE)
Primary Uses:
Lithium-ion battery cathodes for electric vehicles, grid-scale energy storage, portable electronics.
Key Forms:
Produced as lithium carbonate, hydroxide, phosphate, and chloride — each tailored to specific battery chemistries and industrial applications.
Why It Matters:
Lithium is the foundation of the global energy transition, enabling clean mobility and renewable power storage.
Niobium
Primary Uses:
Superalloys, superconducting magnets, high-strength steels for pipelines and critical infrastructure.
Why It Matters:
Improves strength, corrosion resistance, and performance in demanding applications.
Rubidium
Primary Uses:
Specialty glass, advanced electronics, atomic clocks, medical imaging agents.
Why It Matters:
Essential for high-precision timing systems, cutting-edge electronics, and niche applications in defence and telecommunications.
Tantalum
Primary Uses:
High-performance capacitors, aerospace alloys, surgical implants.
Why It Matters:
Critical for defence electronics, high-reliability medical devices, and high-temperature engineering applications.
Beryllium
Primary Uses:
Aerospace components, defence guidance systems, precision instruments.
Why It Matters:
Combines extreme strength-to-weight ratio with thermal stability, enabling advanced engineering solutions.
Aluminium Hydroxide
Primary Uses:
Alternative feedstock for red-mud-free aluminium production, flame retardants and ceramics.
Why It Matters:
A versatile industrial input that supports cleaner aluminium manufacturing and enhances safety applications.
Aluminum Fluoride
Primary Uses:
Key additive in aluminium smelting, enabling efficient electrolysis in aluminium production.
Why It Matters:
Critical to global aluminium manufacturing, reducing energy consumption and improving process efficiency.
High-Purity Silica
Primary Uses:
Solar photovoltaic glass, semiconductor wafers, green cement, advanced optics.
Why It Matters:
Foundational for engineering, clean energy generation and high-tech electronics manufacturing.
Copper
Primary Uses:
Electrical wiring, motors, renewable energy systems, electronics, and thermal management.
Why It Matters:
The backbone of electrification, copper is indispensable for power generation, transmission, and high-performance electronics in the clean energy transition.
Natural Graphite
Primary Uses:
Anodes for lithium-ion batteries.
Why It Matters:
Directly impacts battery performance, energy density, and charging speed in EVs and stationary storage. Superior in performance and significantly more sustainable than synthetic graphite, reducing both carbon footprint and environmental impact.
Securing Tomorrow’s Supply Chains
At Liberate Minerals, we’re not just refining metals — we’re redefining how the world accesses them.
By recovering a full spectrum of critical and strategic materials from hard rock sources, we deliver supply security, lower production costs, and a cleaner environmental footprint. Our approach ensures that the building blocks of the future are produced responsibly, reliably, and within geopolitically aligned nations.
Contact us
Interested in working together? Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly. We can’t wait to hear from you!