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Independence Facility capacity expansion

the Company’s Independence Facility located in Fort Worth, Texas

prj-us-mp-independence-expansion

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What does the record establish?

The $600 million company-cash undertaking also supports other MP projects and is associated with this project without a project-specific allocation.

Financial standing

No directly attributable financial instrument is recorded. A commitment, a payment and a project cost remain separate.

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Legal and policy context

1 parent policy records; 0 project designations. Designation confers standing, not finance. Material and stage overlaps with controls do not establish a restriction on this project.

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Industrial evidence

No source-reviewed project milestone is published in this corpus. Financing records may still contain attributed activity reports; this gap does not establish inactivity.

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Financial evidence and chronology

Each instrument keeps its own financial history. These dates describe financial states, not construction or production. Amounts are the current recorded terms, not historical amounts at every date below.

No directly attributable financial instruments are recorded. Shared packages, if any, appear separately below.

Capital stack

One layer per value role. Only committed public money, and joint-vehicle money apart from it, is summed, per currency; everything else is listed. There is no total across layers.

No financial row is attributable to this project yet.

Source-reviewed industrial observations

No source-reviewed project milestone is published for this undertaking. Any financing-row activity reports below remain attributed observations, not independently reviewed project milestones. Missing evidence does not establish inactivity.

Shared / unallocated financing

These rows explicitly support this project and at least one other project, but the source does not allocate the stated amount among them. They are shown for provenance and excluded from this project's capital stack, backers and co-investment.

10X Facility; Samarium Project; Mountain Pass Facility Improvements (HREE refining and hydrochloric acid facilities); Independence Facility capacity expansionThe Company has also agreed to use up to $600,000,000 of its existing cash to fund the above projects.shared · unallocated

Control clauses on the same materials and stages

Clauses whose covered items share a material and a supply-chain stage with this project, with their legal status on 3 Nov 2026. An overlap of items, not a finding that the project is affected.

CNExport licensing · Item 1 (2B902)MOFCOM & GACC Announcement [2025] No. 56Component manufacturingSuspendedCNExport licensing · Item 1(2) (1E902.b)MOFCOM Announcement No. 62 (2025)Component manufacturingSuspendedCNExport licensing · Item 1(1) (1E902.a)MOFCOM Announcement No. 62 (2025)Component manufacturingSuspendedCNExport licensing · Items 1–7MOFCOM & GACC Announcement [2025] No. 18Component manufacturingIn force

Record

Sponsors
MP Materials Corp.Company
Location
the Company’s Independence Facility located in Fort Worth, TexasUS
Stages
Component manufacturing
Materials
Rare-earth permanent magnets (NdFeB)Tracked materials only
Programmes
None recorded
Latest financing-row activity report
No physical status recorded

What remains unknown

Gaps describe the available SMPT record. They do not establish that an activity did not occur.

  • No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.
  • Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.
  • Shared financing is not allocated among the named projects and is excluded from this project's stack and backers.
  • Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome.

Evidence

Every project fact names the source that states it.

  1. MP Materials Corp., Form 8-K (Transaction Agreement with the Department of Defense)

    MP Materials Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)

    Fields supported
    Name · Sponsors · Location · Supply-chain stages · Materials
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Item 1.01, Transaction Agreement definitions and Facility Improvements
    Qualification
    The filing defines the Independence Facility in Fort Worth, Texas and requires expansion of its rare-earth metal, alloy and permanent-magnet manufacturing capacity to a projected 3,000 tons of magnets annually.
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