PARIS, NEW YORK and WHEAT RIDGE, Colo., Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — USA Uncommon Earth (Nasdaq: USAR), a uncommon earth, crucial minerals and superior supplies firm, Pasqal (Nasdaq: PSQL), a world chief in neutral-atom quantum computing and Riven Methods, a specialist in AI for industrial chemistry, in the present day introduced a strategic partnership to develop next-generation separation expertise for the uncommon earth worth chain. Utilizing quantum machine studying, the undertaking goals to establish new separation molecules that bind extra successfully to uncommon earths than current options, enabling smaller, lower-cost, much less energy-intensive processing amenities.
The collaboration brings collectively U.S. and French experience in two strategically essential sectors: crucial minerals and quantum computing. Collectively, the businesses intention to discover applied sciences that might assist help a safer, environment friendly and aggressive Western uncommon earth provide chain.
The partnership brings collectively Riven’s self-driving minerals separation laboratory and Pasqal’s quantum computing energy with USA Uncommon Earth’s uncommon earth processing experience. Beneath the deliberate undertaking, Riven would conduct 1000’s of automated experiments and generate the coaching knowledge wanted to construct machine studying fashions of extractant selectivity for uncommon earth components. Pasqal’s Impartial Atom QPU would then benchmark quantum machine studying fashions in opposition to classical computing-based fashions (every skilled on knowledge from the self-driving lab) to help USA Uncommon Earth in optimizing extractant choice.
“The important thing problem the uncommon earth business exterior Asia faces is to separate the Combined Uncommon Earth Carbonate (MREC) produced in upstream operations into particular person, separated oxides. The Chinese language dominate this functionality, particularly for important heavy uncommon earths resembling dysprosium, terbium and yttrium. Our purpose is to speed up the trail to environment friendly, aggressive and sustainable options by altering how the uncommon earth business discovers the chemistry it runs on, changing years of trial-and-error,” remarked Alex Moyes, Senior Vice President of Upstream (USA), USA Uncommon Earth. “This strategic partnership will institute an progressive discovery pipeline the place new extractant molecules are recognized and examined just about, powered by a quantum machine studying mannequin skilled on actual chemical knowledge from an autonomous lab. Fast discovery of an extractant constructed and optimized for USA Uncommon Earth’s flowsheets might enhance our capital and working effectivity by decreasing stage depend, gear wants and uncooked materials consumption, whereas reducing the carbon footprint and environmental impression of our amenities. Breakthroughs like these are what might assist make a Western uncommon earth worth chain attainable and speed up our journey to being aggressive on the world stage.”
Pasqal and Riven will tailor their work to USA Uncommon Earth’s feedstocks, anticipated to incorporate the Spherical High mine in Sierra Blanca, Texas, in addition to third-party blended uncommon earth carbonates (MREC) and recycled cuttings (often known as swarf) from the magnet manufacturing course of. Focusing on these key feedstocks means the experimental work can doubtlessly impression all elements of USA Uncommon Earth’s supplies processing work.
“This partnership brings collectively three firms working on the forefront of applied sciences which are more and more essential to financial progress, industrial competitiveness and nationwide resilience,” mentioned Wasiq Bokhari, Chief Government Officer of Pasqal. “Uncommon earth supplies are important and enhancing how they’re processed has implications far past a single business. By combining Pasqal’s quantum computing capabilities with USA Uncommon Earth’s supplies experience and Riven’s superior automation platform, we’ve a chance to speed up innovation whereas demonstrating how French and American firms can work collectively to strengthen crucial provide chains.”
USA Uncommon Earth, Pasqal, and Riven imagine this preliminary machine studying undertaking might create alternatives for a deeper, prolonged collaboration. Over time, the businesses envision a first-of-a-kind, end-to-end extractant discovery course of: a quantum machine studying mannequin identifies high-potential extractants, these extractants are examined in Riven’s self-driving lab, and high candidates are validated in USA Uncommon Earth’s R&D facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado earlier than being built-in in USA Uncommon Earth’s flowsheets.
“AI and autonomous labs are the subsequent frontier in crucial mineral processing,” mentioned Dr. Orion Archer Cohen, CTO and co-founder of Riven Methods. “We applaud USA Uncommon Earth’s proactive adoption of those applied sciences, which forge a path to important enhancements over legacy chemistry. That is precisely how the West can leverage its lead in superior compute applied sciences to reindustrialize quicker.”
About USA Uncommon Earth, Inc. USA Uncommon Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR) is constructing a completely built-in uncommon earth and everlasting magnet worth chain throughout the USA, Brazil and the UK. Via its possession of Much less Widespread Metals (LCM), one of many world’s main producers of uncommon earth metals and alloys, its improvement of magnet manufacturing capability in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the Pela Ema mine in Brazil and the Spherical High deposit in Texas, USA Uncommon Earth operates throughout all the worth chain from mining to metal-making, alloy manufacturing and neodymium magnet manufacturing. USA Uncommon Earth is establishing a safe, Western-aligned provide of supplies important to the aerospace and protection, semiconductor, vitality, knowledge middle, bodily AI, mobility, healthcare and industrial sectors. For extra info, go to www.usare.com.
About Pasqal Pasqal (Nasdaq: PSQL) helps organizations deal with issues which are tough or unimaginable to unravel with typical computing strategies alone. Based in 2019 on Nobel Prize–profitable analysis, Pasqal builds and operates neutral-atom quantum computer systems, delivered with a full software program stack, for business, science, and governments. Pasqal’s production-ready programs can be found each on-premises and thru the cloud, enabling organizations to harness quantum computing with out requiring in-house quantum experience. A single {hardware} platform helps analog workloads in the present day and is designed to evolve towards fault-tolerant quantum computing sooner or later.
Headquartered in France with operations globally, Pasqal’s quantum computing programs are utilized by prospects throughout vitality, monetary companies and superior supplies to handle advanced challenges. Pasqal’s prospects embrace Saudi Aramco, Crédit Agricole CIB, LG Electronics and supported by partnerships with NVIDIA and IBM (Pasqal is a part of the IBM Quantum Community).
About Riven Methods Riven Methods builds chemical intelligence for industrial independence, with the quick purpose of leveraging AI and automation to carry crucial minerals processing again to the West. The corporate is headquartered in New York Metropolis, NY. Be taught extra at rivensystems.ai.
Contacts For USA Uncommon Earth: Investor Relations Contact J.B. Lowe, CFA USA Uncommon Earth, Inc. ir@usare.com
This press launch incorporates “forward-looking statements” inside the which means of the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements embrace these regarding the strategic partnership between USA Uncommon Earth, Pasqal and Riven in addition to its mission, targets and deliberate methodology in addition to the anticipated contribution of every occasion, the flexibility of quantum computing, AI and autonomous labs to be efficiently utilized to industrial functions, together with to cut back the price, vitality use and complexity of uncommon earth processing; the anticipated implications, advantages and functions of any new separation molecules recognized by the strategic partnership, the anticipated impression of any future extractant discovery course of ensuing from the strategic partnership on USA Uncommon Earth’s supplies processing work and the uncommon earth worth chain and different statements concerning USA Uncommon Earth’s and Pasqal’s expectations for future improvement, operations, methods, transactions and monetary efficiency. Such statements could be recognized by the truth that they don’t relate strictly to historic or present info. Phrases resembling “intention,” “anticipate,” “imagine,” “can,” “proceed,” “might,” “estimate,” “count on,” “progress,” “intend,” “might,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “undertaking,” “suggest,” “ought to,” “goal,” “imaginative and prescient,” “will,” “would” and related expressions might establish forward-looking statements, however the absence of those phrases doesn’t imply {that a} assertion just isn’t forward-looking.
Ahead-looking statements are topic to dangers and uncertainties and doubtlessly inaccurate assumptions that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from USA Uncommon Earth’s and Pasqal’s expectations, together with with out limitation: dangers that the strategic partnership between USA Uncommon Earth, Pasqal and RIVEN might not yield viable molecule candidates on a well timed foundation or in any respect; dangers that USA Uncommon Earth and Pasqal might not notice any of the anticipated advantages related to the strategic partnership even when viable molecule candidates are recognized; the danger that the appliance of quantum computing, AI and autonomous labs to industrial functions, resembling advancing separation chemistry in uncommon earth processing, is novel and comparatively untested; dangers that USA Uncommon Earth might not notice the anticipated advantages of its mixture with Serra Verde or its proposed and prior acquisitions, together with anticipated synergies, monetary efficiency, estimated earnings earlier than curiosity, taxes, depreciation and amortization and, within the case of Serra Verde, integration of operations, on the anticipated timeline or in any respect; potential delays within the optimization and commissioning program and the Section II growth on the Pela Ema facility; political, financial, regulatory, tax, foreign money and different dangers related to Serra Verde’s operations in Brazil and Switzerland; bodily local weather dangers associated to the Pela Ema mine; the idea of the Offtake Settlement and substantial indebtedness below Serra Verde’s Retained Finance Settlement, in every case which incorporates restrictive covenants and different necessities that might adversely have an effect on the mixed firm’s monetary flexibility and operations; dangers that the Offtake Settlement is terminated or ceases to be in full power and impact or that the counterparty to the Offtake Settlement is insufficiently capitalized, together with because of a failure to finalize definitive debt financing preparations inside the timeframes contemplated by the Offtake Settlement; dangers that the proposed transaction with Carester SAS is probably not consummated on its anticipated timeline or in any respect; the flexibility of USA Uncommon Earth’s Stillwater magnet manufacturing facility to generate income and the flexibility of USA Uncommon Earth’s deliberate Blacksburg facility to start business operations on the timing and with the manufacturing capability anticipated or in any respect; USA Uncommon Earth’s restricted working historical past; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to commercially extract minerals from the Spherical High deposit on its anticipated timeline or in any respect; variations between deliberate and precise restoration and yield charges; dangers that USA Uncommon Earth might expertise delays, unexpected bills, elevated capital prices, and different issues whereas creating its initiatives; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to boost mandatory capital on acceptable phrases or in any respect; potential dilution to current stockholders and hostile impact on USA Uncommon Earth’s inventory worth if it points extra frequent inventory or equity-linked securities; the volatility of USA Uncommon Earth’s inventory worth; the supply of uncommon earth oxide, steel feedstock and different supplies, utilities (together with energy and water) and gear in portions and costs that enable USA Uncommon Earth to develop and commercially function its Stillwater facility and different amenities; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to satisfy particular person buyer specs and produce a persistently prime quality product; potential provide chain, logistics or product supply disruptions; any delays in acquiring or renewing permits and licenses; any modifications in royalty charges or the imposition of recent royalties; dangers related to neighborhood relations; fluctuations in demand for and costs of neo magnets, uncommon earth components and USA Uncommon Earth’s different merchandise, together with with out limitation because of dumping, predatory pricing and different techniques by USA Uncommon Earth’s opponents or state actors or the general aggressive atmosphere; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to realize constructive money circulate or profitability or the flexibility to entry money circulate inside its company construction on account of restrictions contained in its financing agreements; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to transform present business discussions and/or memorandums of understanding with prospects for the sale of its neo magnets and different merchandise into definitive orders; USA Uncommon Earth’s dependence, partially, on the expansion of current and rising makes use of for neo magnets; the danger that extra manufacturing, refining and mining opponents might end in a discount in income; geopolitical developments or disruptions, resembling modifications within the political atmosphere, export/import or environmental coverage of the Folks’s Republic of China, the USA or different nations by which USA Uncommon Earth operates or sells merchandise or in any other case; USA Uncommon Earth’s designation on an export management listing by China which has had and is predicted to proceed to have an hostile impression on its means to supply key uncooked supplies and provides from China; struggle, terrorism, pure disasters or public well being emergencies; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to retain or recruit key personnel; environmental, well being and security laws; the receipt of funding from the U.S. Division of Commerce is topic to the achievement of milestones which is probably not achieved on the anticipated timeline or in any respect; USA Uncommon Earth’s means to adjust to necessities for federal, state and native authorities incentives and financing; the danger from Pasqal pursuing an rising expertise, dealing with important technical challenges and the potential that it might not obtain commercialization or market acceptance; Pasqal’s reliance on strategic companions and different third events; dangers associated to Pasqal’s indebtedness; and Pasqal’s means to keep up, defend and defend its mental property rights
Extra dangers and detailed info concerning components that will trigger precise outcomes to vary materially has been and will likely be included in USA Uncommon Earth’s and Pasqal’s filings with the SEC, together with USA Uncommon Earth’s most lately filed Annual Report on Type 10-Okay and any subsequent Quarterly Experiences on Type 10-Q and subsequent filings, in addition to Pasqal’s lately filed Registration Assertion on Type F-1. Any forward-looking statements converse solely as of the date of this press launch (or such different date as is laid out in such statements), and USA Uncommon Earth and Pasqal undertake no obligation to replace any forward-looking statements because of new info or future occasions or developments.
