From American ground to defense-qualified metal.
An American-owned defense supply-chain mining platform — two complementary divisions, Critical Minerals and Precious Metals — under one American roof, from deposit to defense-qualified metal.
Two divisions. One American roof.
1635 Resources LLC, with its subsidiary Austin Rare Earth, is organized into two complementary divisions — the Critical Minerals Division and the Precious Metals Division — converting holdings into a U.S.-controlled, mine-to-metal pipeline rather than shipping raw ore into foreign refining chains.
Exploration & resource definition
Hyperspectral targeting, drilling, and claim staking across established hard-rock districts in Mohave, Nye, and Elko Counties.
Mining & brownfield restart
The FMC-pedigree Paradise Peak footprint anchors a Nevada brownfield restart with deep operating history and infrastructure precedent.
Recycling & re-harvesting
Recovery of antimony, vanadium, gallium, PGMs, and silver from historic ore, stockpiles, and tailings that gold-era operations left behind.
Force multiplierProcessing & metallurgy
Leach, separation, and Ti melt-finish via proven PAM/PCH and VAR melt routes — delivered on U.S. soil to defense end users.
Custody & logistics
The Yucca Mineral Vault on the I-40 / BNSF Southern Transcon — bonded, instrumented, and rail-served.
Project finance & monetization
EXIM MMIA, DPA Title III, DoD Office of Strategic Capital, DOE Energy Dominance Financing, and tokenized warehouse-receipt collateral.
Active, adversary-controlled supply chokepoints.
USGS reports the U.S. was 100% import-reliant for 16 critical minerals in its 2026 assessment — up from 15 the prior year — and more than 50% reliant for 54 more. The 1635 portfolio maps deliberately onto where dependence is most acute.
The vulnerability is active, not theoretical.
China — historically ~48% of world antimony supply — banned exports to U.S. military users in December 2024. Spot antimony was ~$51.80/kg as of June 2026 — structurally re-priced versus pre-2024 levels.
Procurement law rewards U.S. control: under 10 U.S.C. § 4863, titanium and titanium alloys must be melted in the United States for DoD end items — making a U.S.-owned producer of melted specialty metals the supplier category the statute is written to favor.
Antimony, titanium, vanadium & the defense-relevant metals.
Metals chosen for defense relevance and import exposure — not commodity fashion. Each maps directly to a specific U.S. defense and advanced-manufacturing mission. Silver, a precious metal newly designated a critical mineral, is developed under the Precious Metals Division.
Gold, silver & platinum — a precious-metals base under the same American roof.
Alongside the Critical Minerals Division, 1635 operates a Precious Metals Division built on a substantial gold, silver, and platinum-group endowment carried across the same Arizona and Nevada ground and held in two joint ventures — anchored by the gold-silver line at the flagship Paradise Peak mine.
A liquid, globally priced inventory for the Yucca Vault.
Precious metals are the natural first inventory for the Yucca Mineral Vault and its Fintech monetization platform — liquid, globally priced, and ideally suited to warehouse-receipt financing and tokenized, metal-backed collateral.
Paradise Peak (Nye County, NV) on the Walker Lane gold-silver belt, equipped with a world-class FMC-built mill. Gold and silver are the primary line, with an existing processing circuit at ~$175/ton operating cost. Held across two joint ventures inside the ~$15.08B Paradise Peak carried resource. The most production-ready, cash-generative element of the platform.
Newly designated a U.S. critical mineral in the 2025 list of 60. Nevada positions sit in the U.S. Silver Belt, with reserves and a plan to recover silver from historic mine material previously discarded — a direct bridge to the platform’s re-harvesting capability and a steady by-product credit to the gold line.
Platinum and palladium occur as recoverable co-products in the Paradise Peak system (Au, Ag + Ti, Sb, Cu, Ga, Pd) and across the historic district material targeted for re-harvesting. Both precious and strategic — indispensable to sensors, electronics, catalysis, and high-temperature propulsion.
Where we are active — Arizona & North / Central Nevada.
Three of the most established hard-rock mining jurisdictions in the United States — deep operating history, infrastructure, and permitting precedent.
| Area / Property | Location | Primary metals | Role in platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise Peak mine | Nye County, NV · Walker Lane Belt | Au, Ag + Ti, Sb, Cu, Ga, Pd | Flagship brownfield restart; FMC-pedigree mill; anchor of both the Critical Minerals and Precious Metals Divisions. |
| Antimony belt target | Nye County, NV · ~8 mi from Paradise Peak | Sb | ~7,000-ft hyperspectral target; ~1,000 acres being staked; high-confidence exploration. |
| Northern Nevada positions | Elko County, NV | Ag, Au, critical-mineral co-products | U.S. Silver Belt; recovery and re-harvest of historic district material. |
| Chloride / Kingman area | Mohave County, AZ | Sb, Cu, V | Arizona flagship feed; regional production for the Yucca custody hub. |
| Vanadium discovery | Arizona | V | Described in 1635 documents as a world-class vanadium reserve; aerospace / VRFB demand. |
| Yucca Mineral Vault | Mohave County, AZ · I-40 / BNSF | Custody — all | ~350-acre bonded storage, processing-support & rail-logistics complex. |
Note · Paradise Peak, antimony-belt, titanium, and vanadium figures are carried-resource, by-product, or high-confidence exploration-target estimates carried from 1635 Resources technical work and internal records. Except where expressly stated, they are not current mineral reserves or resources reported under S-K 1300 or NI 43-101.
The Yucca Mineral Vault & Processing-Logistics Complex.
A secure, instrumented node where regional production is aggregated, verified, and dispatched — a ~350-acre bonded complex at the I-40 Old Trails interchange on the BNSF Southern Transcon.
Segregation. Throughput. Verifiability.
175 vertical steel cone-bottom silos at 1,000 t each give 175,000 t of bonded, instrumented capacity — each silo a dedicated, traceable position for a single owner and grade.
Every tonne is metered at four control points — inbound (M1), to-silo (M2), from-silo (M3), and outbound (M4) — through NIST-traceable, ISO/IEC 17025-calibrated instruments, producing a continuous, auditable mass balance: a physical proof-of-reserve before anything ever touches a ledger.
From deposit to defense-qualified metal.
Import dependence is not solved by foreign mines selling to America; it is solved by American companies controlling the asset, the processing, and the offtake. 1635 is structured for exactly that.
Recycling and re-harvesting of previously-mined ore feed the same processing and custody chain.
Aligned with the U.S. industrial-base toolkit.
1635 maps onto the federal financing instruments designed for exactly this category of asset — American-owned, domestic-sourced, defense-relevant critical minerals.
Mineral & Metal Inventory Account
Inventory financing aligned with the $12B EXIM-backed Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve precedent.
DPA Title III · Office of Strategic Capital
Defense Production Act Title III grants and OSC long-tenor debt for capacity build-out.
Energy Dominance Financing
Loan-guarantee and grant pathways for critical-mineral processing and re-harvest demonstration.
§ 4863 melt-in-U.S. preference
Statutory titanium melt-in-U.S. requirement positions 1635 in the favored supplier category.
Approved U.S. Government contractor. American ownership and control.
1635 Resources LLC is registered, scored, and authorized to handle the controlled technical data and procurement workflows that defense supply chains require.
CAGE Code
1635 Resources LLC is registered in the DLA CAGE/BINCS system as an active U.S. Government supplier and authorized entity for federal procurement activity.
SPRS · DLA / CMC
The Site Data Custodian for 1635 Resources LLC is SPRS-listed on the DLA Government site, Cybersecurity Maturity Certification (CMC) record, with an active NIST SP 800-171 self-assessment posture.
USML / CCLI Data Custodian
Data Custodian listed under CAGE Code 87N60 for USML (U.S. Munitions List) and CCLI (Commerce Control List Item) controlled technical data, governed by ITAR and EAR.
Domestic ground. American owners. Defense-qualified metal.
If you are evaluating critical-mineral offtake, project capital, or a U.S.-controlled supply-chain partner for the defense industrial base — we should talk.