The $30B Catalyst Reshaping America’s Mineral Supply

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Issued on behalf of Americore Resources Corp.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Equity-Insider.com News Commentary — The Department of Energy just launched a pivotal $500 million initiative to fund domestic mineral processing. It is a massive structural shift showing that America is finally moving to fix the midstream bottlenecks that leave US manufacturers exposed to foreign supply shocks^[1]. Concurrently, the 2026 Critical Minerals Ministerial mobilized more than $30 billion in government-backed capital to accelerate local project development and streamline regulatory hurdles^[2]. This wave of scalable investment is rapidly repricing undervalued onshore assets. Positioned directly in the path of this domestic localization thesis are Americore Resources (TSXV: AMCO) (OTCQB: AMCOF), Westwater Resources (NYSE-A: WWR), NioCorp Developments (NASDAQ: NB), Ryerson (NYSE: RYZ), and American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ: AREC) each represent a distinct node in the domestic localization thesis, advancing permitted or near-permitted assets as capital reprices toward onshore supply.

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The macro setup here is incredibly strong. S&P Global’s February 2026 consensus analysis confirms that industrial metals prices are expected to stay firm, driven by draining supplies in copper, silver, and aluminum just as AI infrastructure demand rapidly accelerates^[3]. Furthermore, new federal funding pathways from the Defense Industrial Base Consortium are actively targeting localized supply chains, confirming that onshore minerals processing is the primary value driver of this cycle^[4]. Smart institutional money is quietly positioning for this domestic buildout, seeking undervalued projects with strategic growth potential.

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Americore Resources (TSXV: AMCO) (OTCQB: AMCOF) is moving its wholly owned Trinity Silver Project through a methodical pre-drill checklist in Pershing County, Nevada, and the latest item has been ticked off.

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Pioneer Exploration Consultants of Ottawa just wrapped a drone-magnetometer survey spanning roughly 350 line-km across the property, targeting subsurface structures along a six-kilometre southwest-to-northeast corridor centred on the Trinity open pit. All data is now in hand, and Campbell and Walker Geophysics has been brought in to interpret the results alongside every piece of historic geophysical data the company holds. The goal is a unified structural model of everything sitting below the surface across the full project footprint.

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That ground is worth paying attention to. Trinity sits inside a 22,700-acre consolidated land package built around a former US Borax open pit, with optioned ground from Primus Resources rounding out the footprint. The property carries a historic resource of 36 million silver-equivalent ounces, and an extensive historic drill database is already in place to anchor the upcoming campaign.

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Permitting for that campaign is now underway, targeting a Q2 2026 start. The program spans both BLM land and fee land regulated by the Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation within the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. The BLM portion requires only a Notice of Disturbance for under five acres, a streamlined pathway that keeps field mobilization on schedule and avoids the longer timelines that come with more complex regulatory tracks.

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“The exploration plan, which includes both confirmation and expansion drilling, is to move the resource from Inferred to Indicated,” said Jeff Poloni, CEO of Americore Resources Corp., “which will then become the foundation for a new mineral resource estimate.”