Critical Minerals Expo | North America 2026
Date
October 28
Format
In-Person
Location
Atlanta, GA
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Trade show and conference focused on securing and strengthening North American critical-minerals supply chains across processors, manufacturers, engineers, and industry leaders. Topics include supply-chain vulnerability and import dependence; China’s dominance and geostrategic risk; permitting and regulatory bottlenecks; domestic refining and manufacturing capacity; diversified sourcing and international partnerships; responsible and ethical mining; and circular-economy strategies. Critical Minerals track sessions include “Creating a Closed Loop Solution for Critical Materials: From Concept to Operation”; “Critical Minerals and Why They Matter: Supply Chain Shifts, Risks, and USGS Research”; “Expert overview of North America’s critical minerals supply chain – where are we going?”; “Rare earths market outlook 2026/27”; “Ghana and North America: Building a Critical Minerals Supply Chain Partnership”; “Spotlight on Base Metals: Planning ahead for future supply chains”; “Building Digital Marketplaces for Critical Materials”; “Beyond Dollars: What America Must Do to Prevail Over China in the Global Critical Minerals Fight”; “Focus on Tungsten Markets”; “America’s Race for Rare Earths and China’s November Reckoning (Panel)”; “Securing critical material supply chains for the aerospace industry: UAVs, military and commercial trends”; “How policy, government, and industry can work together to level up domestic critical minerals supply chains”; “The Intelligence Advantage: How AI Can Transform Critical Minerals Strategy and Capital”; “Need to know updates to NFPA 660 – The safety standard for combustible dusts and particulate solids”; and “The Important Role of High Purity Silica Quartz in the North American Supply Chain”. The show is co-located with Battery Recycling Expo and E-Waste World Expo.
Speakers(34)
Chief Operating Officer, Paladin Envirotech
Principal Sourcing Engineer, Microsoft
Partner, Western Digital Global Operations Product Sustainability & Circularity, Western Digital
SVP of Critical Materials & Defense, Paladin Envirotech
Professor, Florida State University
President/CEO, Critical Materials Recycling
Mineral Commodity Specialist, U.S. Geological Survey
Executive Director, Critical Minerals Institute
President, Kloni Inc.
Co-Chair, Critical Minerals Institute
Price Reporter, Critical Minerals, Fastmarkets
Co-founder, Rare Earths Exchanges
CEO, ERI
Deputy CEO, Minerals Commission Ghana
Secretary General, International Copper Study Group
Head of Sales - Smelting, Metso
Head of Zinc Battery Initiative, International Zinc Association
Manager, Batteries Program, Nickel Institute
Founder and CEO, Westwin Elements
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, All Things Circular
Brady Family Professor and Area Chair for Strategy & Innovation, Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business
Chief Financial Officer, Titan International Inc.
Chairman, President & CEO, Almonty Industries Inc
CEO, American Tungsten
CEO, American Rare Earths
Chair (North America), Minor Metals Trade Association
Founder and Director, Project Blue
Executive Director, American Critical Minerals Association
President & Managing Director, Aurubis Richmond
Chairman and CFO, 3 Proton Lithium Inc.
Critical Minerals Policy Manager, SAFE
Board Member, Upcell Alliance
Owner and President, SonicAire
CEO, Sio Silica
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