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Bear Lodge Rare Earth Project

PERMITTING DASHBOARD PROJECT POSTING DATE: MARCH 20, 2026

PROJECT WEBSITE: Bear Lodge Project

All dates below are specific to the schedule of the Environmental Review and Permitting processes for this project.

In Progress

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING STATUS
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ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING
03/20/2028

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Mining

SECTOR
Mining

Project Category

CATEGORY
Project Category FAST-41 Covered Projects

Department of Agriculture

LEAD AGENCY
Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service

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Description:

The Bear Lodge Rare Earth Project proposes to utilize the planned Bull Hill Mine, located near the town of Sundance in northeastern Wyoming, which is comprised of several disseminated deposits and characterized by a distribution of critical magnet rare earth elements (REEs), specifically neodymium-praseodymium (Nd/Pr), and other essential REEs. The Project includes the Bull Hill Mine (pit, ore hauling, waste rock storage, ore stockpile, ore crushing and loading, pit dewatering, and site management), grid supplied power, and access/transportation into and out of federal lands.

The project encompasses mining a USGS-recognized REE resource at the Bear Lodge deposit on Black Hills National Forest lands that will become feed material for a commercial processing facility to serve as a supply to downstream partners for permanent magnet manufacturing which are essential to defense and high-tech industries. The processing facility will be located on private land, approximately 40 miles from the mine area.
 

 

Permitting Timetable

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