Project Vault: Securing America’s Minerals
America’s $12B Investment in Minerals
The United States has launched its first strategic critical minerals reserve. Project Vault commits $12 billion to securing mineral supply chains vital to manufacturing, defense, energy, and advanced technology.
This marks the largest federal capital deployment into critical minerals in modern U.S. history.
From Policy to Capital Deployment
Project Vault operates as a public–private financing platform, combining $10 billion in Export-Import Bank credit with $2 billion in private capital.
Together, this framework creates a financing pathway for large-scale copper development across:
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The United States
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Puerto Rico
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Select regions of the Western Hemisphere
Project Vault aligns federal capital with mineral development. Mineral development is not simply industrial activity — it is value creation at scale.
It generates:
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High-wage employment
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An expanded tax base
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Strengthened regional industry
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Funding capacity for public infrastructure
A Strategic Opportunity for Jurisdictions
Capital Will Move Where Projects Advance
Federal capital does not build mines on its own — projects must be advanced to capture it.
Jurisdictions that advance copper projects are positioned to capture the economic benefits. Where progress is delayed, investment will flow elsewhere.
