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Magrathea Metals

Rebuilding the American magnesium metal supply base.

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Magrathea has developed a next-generation electrolytic process that produces magnesium metal directly from seawater and brines — bypassing the dirty, Chinese-dominated Pidgeon process. Standing up the first major Western electrolytic magnesium smelter in Stamps, Arkansas.

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The U.S. has effectively zero domestic primary magnesium production; nearly all of it comes from China. Magnesium is critical for aerospace alloys, automotive lightweighting, and steel desulfurization. Magrathea's process makes inherently carbon-neutral magnesium and re-onshores a material the West has lost. Backed by >$100M and >$500M/yr in future sales MOUs.

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