Pentagon ploughs $560 million into ‘world-first’ Australian mining project
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-08-08 09:02 UTC+10:00
Section: World / North America
Factuality Score: 90
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Military & Defence, Australia, Financial Markets, Commodities, World News, US Politics, War & Conflict
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Washington: The Pentagon will invest more than half a billion dollars in a “world-first” mining project in central western NSW that produces scandium, a rare critical mineral used in fighter jets, spacecraft and other tools of war.
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