Episode 4 of 11
Stibnite: Critical Minerals
Yellow Pine, IdahoAntimony · Gold
Antimony, gold, and national defense: why critical minerals are suddenly everyone’s business.
The History
During World War II, the remote Stibnite district near Yellow Pine supplied as much as 90 percent of America’s antimony and roughly half of its tungsten. Metals from one Idaho valley went into the ammunition, armor, and hardened steel that helped win the war. Perpetua Resources is now working to reopen the district as the country’s only domestic primary source of antimony, recovered alongside gold, with strong federal interest behind it.
The Dream Tour List for This Leg
The stops and companies we want on camera as the convoy works this ground. Proposed, not confirmed bookings, and growing as the dream tour list fills in.
Perpetua Resources · Stibnite Gold Project
America’s antimony comeback story, told from the site itself.
Yellow Pine townsite
The backcountry village at the end of the road, and the WWII history around it.
Defense and battery end users
Where antimony actually goes: munitions, flame retardants, and grid storage.
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