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Kings Mountain

Hardrock In development 🇺🇸 US-investable ALB

Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA

Overview

ChemistryHardrock
StageIn development
Annual capacity420 kt/y SC6-eq capacity target (restart)
Development stagefeasibility (restart; DFS pending)

Operators

$3
TickerOperatorStakeStatus
ALB Albemarle (100%) 100% feasibility

Location

Approximate location.

Customers & offtake agreements

No mine-specific offtake is documented in the vault for this mine. The operator(s) below have company-level agreements.

Company-level agreements (operator-wide, not mine-specific)

OperatorCustomerProductVolumeTermStatusCitation
ALB Power Metals (cesium offtake — adjacent critical minerals) cesium concentrate from 2025-12-01 active linked source link
ALB Multiple (CATL, Panasonic, LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI) active unsourced

Agreements disclosed in filings; each row shows its citation strength — cached filing (primary doc cached in the vault), linked source (public URL, may rot), vault note (curated note, secondary provenance), unsourced (no source on record). Volumes are as disclosed; pricing terms are confidential and not shown.

The numbers behind Kings Mountain

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Reserves & grade — Resource & reserve tonnage, grade, category, as-of date.$3
Royalties & streams — Royalty/stream type, payor, payee, rate, basis, status.$2
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