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North America forms alliance for integrated critical manganese supply chain
The North American Critical Manganese Alliance is anchored by Canadian Manganese’s Woodstock project in New Brunswick, described as North America’s largest known manganese carbonate system.
Canadian Manganese Company, GreenMet, AmForge LLC, and Flash Metals USA have formed the North American Critical Manganese Alliance, a long-term effort to build a fully integrated manganese supply chain across Canada and the United States, Mining.com reports.
The companies said manganese is increasingly important for electric vehicle batteries, grid scale energy storage, specialty steels, advanced manufacturing, and defense applications, and they formed the alliance because North America lacks a fully integrated domestic manganese supply chain.
NACMA is designed to combine critical mineral development and project financing with industrial manufacturing and specialty processing, with an industrial platform intended to run from manganese ore extraction in Canada through primary refining, specialty processing, and advanced manufacturing in the United States.
The alliance is anchored by Canadian Manganese’s Woodstock project in New Brunswick, which the companies described as North America’s largest known manganese carbonate system and a strategic resource for producing high purity manganese products.