Rare Earth Elements & Mineral Mining

Texans have long prospered from resources below the land. 

Today, the Rare Earth Elements and Mineral Mining sector in Texas is focused on the extraction of both metal and nonmetal elements, including a variety of metal ores, crushed stone, sand and rare earth elements. These natural resources are critical to the development of the infrastructure of today and the new technologies of tomorrow. Metal mining supports high-tech and defense industries essential to economic and national security, and nonmetal mining products are essential to construction and oil extraction.  

Texas Advantages: Texas’ geography and abundant natural resources, along with our highly skilled and growing workforce, central geographic location in North America and robust infrastructure providing direct access to domestic and international markets present significant operating advantages for the metal mining and nonmetal mining industries. Texas also offers room to grow with lower land costs, fewer land-use restrictions, faster permitting, lower energy costs, lower costs of living and more.

To support this emerging sector, Texas institutions of higher education are launching new rare earth and mining programs to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements and businesses are advancing mining practices to improve safety and efficiency.

Targest industry clusters within the Rare Earth Elements & Mineral Mining sector include: 

• Metal Mining
• Nonmetal Mining