The initiative received $22.4 million in consortium awards to design and deploy a scalable processing facility capable of recovering antimony and other defense-related minerals from the Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho. Perpetua Resources entered into a collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory and the U.S. Army’s Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium to host, commission and operate a flexible, modular pilot processing plant aimed at critical mineral recovery. By producing antimony trisulfide concentrate, the pilot plant is positioned to supply up to 35% of U.S. antimony demand over its first six years, strengthening domestic defense supply chains and reducing reliance on foreign sources.