Earthworks Launches Critical Minerals Feedstock Network to Address Copper and Rare Earths Shortages
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News Release
September 2, 2026
Earthworks Launches Critical Minerals Feedstock Network to Address
Copper and Rare Earths Shortages
Vancouver, British Columbia – September 2, 2026 – Earthworks Industries Inc. (TSX-V: EWK,
OTCQB: EAATF) (“Earthworks” or the “Company”), a critical minerals recycling and recovery
company advancing modular systems designed to recover critical minerals and strengthen
Western critical mineral supply chains, announces the launch of the Earthworks Critical Minerals
Feedstock Network, a strategic initiative designed to identify, secure, and allocate sources of end-
of-life products and industrial materials as well as tailings and waste rock projects for the
Company’s planned critical minerals recycling and recovery operations.
The Earthworks Critical Minerals Feedstock Network will initially focus on building supply
relationships around end-of-life and industrial material streams associated with copper and rare
earths, the initial priority recovery areas being advanced by the Company.
The Network is intended to connect Earthworks with organizations that generate, aggregate,
dismantle, recycle or otherwise control potentially suitable end-of-life products, industrial material
streams, or unprocessed critical mineral ore across Canada and, over time, other North American
and allied markets.
David Atkinson, CEO of Earthworks, commented:
“Feedstock is a foundational component of any successful recycling and recovery operation. The
Earthworks Critical Minerals Feedstock Network is intended to build the relationships and supply
channels necessary to support our planned operations while creating a scalable sourcing platform
that can grow alongside the Company.”
“There are significant quantities of valuable materials already above ground in equipment,
infrastructure and products reaching the end of their useful lives, as we as old mining projects
that were not historically viable.
Our objective is to establish a network capable of identifying source materials, creating productive
relationships with the organizations that control them, and ultimately returning recovered critical
minerals to Western supply chains.”
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Initial Focus: Copper and Rare Earths
Earthworks’ initial feedstock development efforts are focused on material streams associated with
its planned copper recycling and rare earth recycling and recovery initiatives.
Rather than relying on a single source or category of material, the Company intends to develop a
diversified network of generators, aggregators and strategic partners capable of providing
materials from multiple end-of-life, industrial, and legacy channels.
The Company’s broader recovery strategy is based on identifying valuable materials already
present above ground and creating scalable pathways to recover and return those materials to
productive use. This approach forms part of Earthworks’ strategy to comp lement traditional
primary mineral supply with domestically sourced recycled and recovered materials.
The Company’s underlying recovery platform contemplates modular processing systems capable
of operating across multiple feedstock and critical-mineral categories as the business develops.
Flexible Feedstock Partnerships
Earthworks intends to evaluate feedstock opportunities across a range of volumes, from smaller
initial or trial quantities through recurring commercial-scale material streams.
Depending on the nature of the material and the counterparty, potential commercial relationships
may include direct purchasing, contracted supply, revenue-sharing arrangements, toll processing,
material removal arrangements and longer-term strategic partnerships.
These structures are consistent with the Company’s broader strategy of developing flexible
commercial models around feedstock acquisition and recovery.
The Company is also evaluating specialist sourcing and origination relationships to assist in
expanding the Network and identifying prospective feedstock opportunities.
Invitation to Participate
Earthworks invites organizations that generate, manage, aggregate or control potentially relevant
end-of-life products or industrial material streams to contact the Company regarding potential
inclusion in the Earthworks Critical Minerals Feedstock Network.
Organizations interested in discussing potential feedstock supply, recycling or strategic
partnership opportunities can contact:
Additional information regarding materials currently being sought by the Company is also
available through the Earthworks website:
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https://earthworksinc.com/feedstock-network
Building the Supply Side of Earthworks’ Recovery Platform
The establishment of the Earthworks Critical Minerals Feedstock Network represents another step
in the Company’s development of a distributed critical minerals recycling and recovery platform.
The Company’s broader platform contemplates scaling through distributed feedstock
relationships rather than dependence on a single material source or centralized supply stream.
Earthworks intends to leverage the Network not only to identify near-term material for testing and
initial operations, but to develop a growing database of long-term material sources, supply
relationships and strategic partners.
David Atkinson added:
“Securing critical minerals isn’t only about finding new deposits. It is also about becoming better
at recovering the valuable materials that already surround us. We believe building the
relationships that connect those materials to recovery infrastructure is an important part of
strengthening domestic and allied critical mineral supply chains.”
Addressing the Critical Minerals Supply Gap
The race to build and power artificial intelligence infrastructure, electrify transportation, modernize
defense systems and expand advanced manufacturing has created an unprecedented and
accelerating demand for critical minerals, including copper, rare ear th elements, lithium, cobalt,
nickel, tungsten, titanium and many other materials that form the physical foundation of the 21st-
century economy.
The problem is supply.
Refining and processing capacity for many of these materials is heavily concentrated in foreign
jurisdictions, most significantly China, creating vulnerabilities in Western supply chains that are
no longer theoretical, but active and urgent.
Both Canada and the United States have responded with major policy commitments, including
Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy and initiatives under the United States Defense Production
Act and CHIPS and Science Act, directed at building domestic supply chain resilience.
Primary mining alone cannot close the supply gap quickly enough. New mine development
frequently requires a decade or more to advance from discovery through permitting, financing,
construction and production.
This is where recycling and secondary recovery become strategically essential.
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Many of the materials required by Western economies already exist above ground in significant
quantities within end-of-life electronics, industrial scrap, manufacturing byproducts, legacy mine
waste, tailings, waste rock and other previously processed materials.
Urban recycling and secondary recovery can provide a faster, lower-impact and potentially more
capital-efficient path to production than greenfield mine development. However, domestic
recovery infrastructure across North America remains fragmented and undersupplied, creating a
need for modular, deployable and digitally managed recovery capacity.
Through its acquisition of the Critical Minerals Recovery System, Earthworks holds a full -stack
platform developed to address that need, beginning with copper and rare earth elements, expand
into battery metals, precious metals and defense-related materials across Canada and the United
States.
About Earthworks Industries Inc.
Earthworks Industries Inc. (TSX.V: EWK, OTCQB: EAATF) is a critical minerals recycling and
recovery company advancing modular systems designed to recover strategic metals and
strengthen Western critical mineral supply chains. The Company is developing scalable recycling
and recovery infrastructure to help address the growing need for domestic critical minerals
production.
For further information, contact:
Earthworks Industries Inc.
David Atkinson
President/CEO
604-669-3143
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