The sector is full of promoter-funded coverage. Here's the standard every record meets before it ships.
Source. Each record links the filing, government register or release it draws on — USGS Minerals Yearbook, RMI smelter lists, EU CRMA Strategic Projects, company announcements, Reuters. No source, no record.
Date. A verification date on every record, so staleness is visible rather than hidden.
Confidence. High (official filing or government source states it directly), medium (company site or reputable trade press), or low (single secondary source). Low-confidence records are flagged, not hidden.
Correction route. Every page has a way to flag an error. Corrections are reviewed, applied and dated.
Design capacity and actual output are different numbers and are never conflated. Where a source doesn't say which, the record says so instead of guessing.
Critical Midstream is not affiliated with any metals trader, dealer, producer or promoter. No advertorial records, no pay-to-be-listed. The Registry is paid by subscribers, not by the companies it lists.
Midstream processing — separation, refining, alloying, magnet production and recycling — outside China, across six minerals: rare earths, gallium, germanium, graphite, antimony and tungsten. Not mines, not downstream product manufacturing.