Building America’s Zero-Waste Critical Minerals Refinery.
Nickel, Cobalt & More from Multi-Source Feedstocks • Zero Water Use • Easy Permitting
China Controls refining.
We’re taking it back.
Refining unlocks the value in Critical Minerals. The world ships its raw materials to China to be processed — Precision Periodic refines them here, clean and at a fraction of the cost.
A refinery that fits in a warehouse.
Modular Multi-Scale Refining Units and proprietary Nano Beads™ media refine nickel, cobalt, and manganese from one feedstock — clean, and at a fraction of the cost.
It’s not the mine.
It’s the refinery.
A country can own the ore and still depend entirely on whoever refines it, The U.S. can mine and import but still has to ship it to China to be processed.
Mining is diverse. Refining is not.
Mining by mineral and country.
Refining by mineral and country.
China is the world’s #1 refiner of 19 of 20 strategic minerals.
THE U.S. POSITION
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The refining capacity for battery-grade nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
We hold reserves and sign mining deals — then send the minerals to be processed by the one country we are competing with.
The chokepoint is already a weapon.
200+ export controls on critical minerals since 2018 — each one a preview of what dependence costs.
The United States Must Build Domestic Refining Capacity beginning with Nickel
This Is Not a Theoretical Risk. It Has Already Happened.
Since 2020, Indonesia has banned nickel ore exports, China has restricted gallium, germanium, and antimony, Russia has signaled intent to restrict nickel and titanium, and the DRC has restricted cobalt exports. Each move tightened the same chokepoints America depends on.
The pattern is accelerating, not slowing. Every restriction is a preview of what happens when refining capacity sits outside US control — and the next one could land on a mineral with no substitute.
Nickel isn't a niche input — it's foundational to the modern US economy and military alike. A shortage doesn't hit one industry in isolation; it ripples across sectors simultaneously, since the same metal underpins infrastructure, defense manufacturing, and next-generation energy systems at once. Few critical minerals carry that kind of cross-sector weight.
That interdependence is what makes refining capacity a strategic issue, not just an economic one. Relying on a geopolitical adversary's supply chain for materials that feed both the defense industrial base and civilian infrastructure isn't a trade deficit — it's a strategic liability.