First Phosphate Corp CSE: $PHOS – OTCQX: $FRSPF – OTCQX-ADR: $FPHOY – FSE: $KD0 continues advancing its Bégin-Lamarche project as a differentiated North American phosphate platform focused on the growing LFP battery supply chain. 🔹 Recent high-grade infill drilling confirmed broad, continuous phosphate mineralization across multiple zones, further de-risking the project ahead of feasibility-level advancement 🔹 Unlike traditional fertilizer-focused phosphate peers, FRSPF is positioning Bégin-Lamarche as a vertically integrated source of battery-grade purified phosphoric acid (PPA) for North American LFP batteries 🔹 Strong project economics, improving balance sheet strength, and expanding downstream partnerships continue supporting the company’s long-term strategic positioning Read Dmitry Silversteyn's full report for more detail on drilling results, project economics, strategic partnerships, and valuation outlook. $FRSPF #BatteryMaterials# #LFP# #EVs# #CriticalMinerals# #Phosphate# #EnergyTransition# #Mining# #NorthAmerica# #SmallCaps# #WaterTowerResearch# @FirstPhosphate

Price increases since start of the Iran war... European Natural Gas: +125% Sulfur: +123% Heating Oil: +77% Jet Fuel: +62% Diesel: +56% Rice: +47% Gasoline: +39% WTI Crude Oil: +36% Cotton: +32% Diammonium Phosphate: +26% Wheat: +24% Palm Oil: +22% Corn: +17%

The proposed plant in Waggaman, Louisiana, the first of its kind in the US in over four decades, would produce more than a million tons of phosphate-based fertilizer annually, according to a Wednesday press release.

BREAKING: Uber founder @travisk says his new company, Atoms, is deploying autonomous mining technology at the world’s largest iron ore mine deep in the Brazilian Amazon and at a phosphate mine near the Iraq–Saudi Arabia border. Shared on @tbpn.

World Fertilizer shortage raises ag costs 40% and threatens world food supply. Two solutions: 1) End all U.S. duties on fertilizer and phosphate to help farmers.  2) Trump must pressure China to end fertilizer export restrictions.

Reading CMS-2567 report investigating how hospital ended up injecting what is potentially heart stopper into spine of patients. One thing hospital claims is both vials had names starting from P!! So don't pharmicists read full labels, anymore? In this case phramicst who was preparing syringes was a pharmacy tech and also a trainee on probation!! One put the wrong bottle on the table and left. Other trainee drew the syringes without reading the bottle names. And pharmacist just looked at picture of the bottle on his computer and approved. This is completely not acceptable. This is now reality in American healthcare because everywhere Insurance has made it very hard to work. Imagine hospital using trainee pharmacy techs instead of real pharmacist. And grapevine I have access to says one of the pharmacy tech was continuing night float into day shift!! I am sharing the bottles of Mepivacaine and Potassium phosphate so that everyone knows that bottles were distinguishable if they had bothered to read!! America is being driven to the ground by all this incompetence. This is why I keep writing how middlemen have infested US healthcare!!

Data center backlash could reach automakers’ new battery storage plans Ford, GM and Tesla are turning excess battery capacity into a growing stationary energy-storage business as EV demand falls short of earlier expectations—but that opportunity could also expose automakers to the growing backlash against data centers. – Tesla, Ford and GM are expanding into stationary battery storage for data centers, utilities and the broader power grid. – Softer EV demand has left automakers with battery manufacturing capacity that can be redirected toward energy storage and new revenue streams. – Tesla’s Megapack business is already well established, with SpaceX purchasing $295 million worth of Megapacks in Q2 alone. – Ford Energy plans to begin producing stationary storage systems at its Kentucky plant in 2027, targeting 20 gigawatt-hours of annual capacity. – GM’s Ultium Cells venture with LG Energy Solution has begun producing lithium iron phosphate cells for stationary storage at its Tennessee facility following a $70 million investment. – GM also plans to produce sodium-ion battery cells for storage beginning in 2028 and is exploring second-life applications for EV batteries. – At least 75 data center projects worth roughly $130 billion faced opposition in the first quarter, with concerns ranging from electricity costs and water use to noise and land use. – Battery storage can nevertheless help reduce peak grid demand, improve reliability and support renewable energy. The opportunity is significant, but it comes with a new type of risk for automakers. As Ford, GM and Tesla move deeper into the energy business, their batteries could increasingly connect them to controversial AI and data center projects—meaning automakers may have to manage not only the economics of energy storage, but also the political and community backlash surrounding where that energy is being used.

A new protein-based gel can regenerate tooth enamel. For generations, dental patients have accepted a hard truth: once your tooth enamel is gone, it is gone for good. However, a major scientific breakthrough has shattered this limitation. An international research team, led by scientists at the University of Nottingham, has developed a revolutionary biomimetic gel capable of repairing and regenerating damaged tooth enamel. Published in the journal Nature Communications, this fluoride-free treatment uses lab-engineered proteins to mimic the natural processes of enamel development during infancy. When applied to the teeth, it creates a microscopic scaffold that captures calcium and phosphate ions from the patient's saliva, systematically growing a new mineral layer that seamlessly integrates with the tooth's original structure. This innovative gel offers a painless, drill-free alternative to traditional fillings and crowns, which only mask damage rather than healing it. Clinical trials for the biocompatible gel are slated to begin this year, and the development team is already collaborating with spin-off company Mintech-Bio with the goal of releasing their first commercial product as early as next year. By offering a permanent, easy-to-apply solution for acid erosion and early-stage cavities, this regenerative technology could fundamentally change routine dental care and spare millions of patients the discomfort of the dental drill. source: Hasan, A., et al.. Biomimetic supramolecular protein matrix restores structure and properties of human dental enamel. Nature Communications, 16(1), 9434.

🌊Good update on the critical metals resting on the deep seabed TLDR; “Who extracts these minerals will determine more about the next century than most of the decisions being made in Washington… The floor of the Pacific is the last great untapped resource extraction prize on Earth.” Excerpts: “The target for this mining is a 104.5 million acre stretch of seabed between Mexico and Hawaii known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), where US Geological Survey estimates suggest deposits contain more nickel, cobalt, and manganese than all known worldwide land-based reserves combined. The full CCZ is estimated to contain up to 30 billion metric tons of nodules — a deposit, at current valuations, worth up to $18.4 trillion. Critical minerals demand is accelerating beyond what the existing supply system was designed to handle. By 2035, EVs could account for as much as 70% of global new car sales. The critical minerals supply system has no plausible path to keeping pace. In the US alone there are 570 gigawatts of battery storage projects waiting to be added to the grid. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has projected that demand for battery metals could grow by a factor of 30x by 2040 from 2024 levels. Battery storage costs will fall another 35–55% by 2035. At that level, the economic case for new gas-fired power plants collapses because storage can undercut gas on price while performing the same grid-balancing function. But this plummeting cost curve assumes a steady flow of raw materials, an assumption that currently rests on shaky ground. The biggest risk to this energy transition is a lack of mines. The IEA estimates the world needs 80 new copper mines, 70 new lithium mines, and 70 new nickel mines to meet projected demand. Historically new copper mines take 15-20 years or longer to come online. Closing this gap through conventional mining alone is functionally impossible. The structural supply shortage of the materials we need to electrify our economies will redraw the map of global power. Instead of Saudi Arabia and other petrostates holding the world politically hostage, power could shift to what we might call electrostates that possess or control the critical minerals needed for electrification. The largest electrostate is China. Chinese companies control significant shares of global cobalt and manganese extraction in Africa and elsewhere and have locked up supply through overseas mining investments as part of a deliberate industrial strategy. China is the dominant refiner for 19 of the 20 minerals analyzed in the IEA’s Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025. The country manufactures more than 80% of the world’s finished batteries and controls over 98% of lithium iron phosphate battery cell production. What [Metals Company CEO] Barron was offering President Trump, in his own words, was “an amazing way of catching up from what is a very distant second place to China when it comes to critical minerals.” Four days after that Oval Office meeting, Trump signed an executive order directing the US government to expedite seabed mining licenses in international waters... Any environmental concerns must be balanced with the reality that open-pit mining is more ecologically destructive than the methods proposed by Western deep-sea mining companies; open-pit mining projects are mostly located in countries with weaker environmental protections than the international frameworks governing the CCZ. The relevant comparison here is between different forms of mineral extraction, because extraction is necessary and environmental costs can only be mitigated, not eliminated. The Metals Company’s PATANIA III collector vehicle uses hydraulic suction to skim nodules from the seafloor rather than the bulldozing motion of earlier prototypes, reducing sediment disturbance by roughly 90%. ‘Copper is the new oil,’ according to Robert Friedland, a legendary mining industry figure and one of the first investors in Apple. Copper is why the economics of deep-sea mining are becoming newly compelling. Copper has no real substitute. It’s also embedded in virtually every system that carries an electrical current. China reversed course on deep-sea mining, a position it had resisted for decades. Beijing’s calculation had changed because land-based mineral strategies in Africa were proving expensive, politically unstable, and increasingly exposed. China now holds more deep-sea exploration licenses than any other country and has built a large fleet of research and survey vessels operating across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The appeal of deep-sea mining to China, which prizes self-sufficiency above all else, is apparent. The ocean asks nothing of you. Unlike developing nations, the ocean won’t attempt to nationalize your assets or default on a loan or hold elections with unpredictable consequences for your investments. In the March 2026 issue of Qiushi, the Chinese Communist Party’s top theoretical journal, an editorial declared 'The 21st century is the century of the ocean; whoever wins the ocean wins the future. China is one of the earliest nations in the world to develop and utilize the ocean ... We must deeply implement Xi Jinping’s vision to build a maritime power.' If the Chinese pursue deep-sea mining as part of an integrated strategy to control the world’s oceans, the US must treat it as a mandatory theatre of competition. The Trump administration is pushing forward. NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Management are accelerating permitting. In late March, the US and Japan signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly advance deep-sea mining. Who extracts these minerals, and under what legal framework, will determine more about the next century than most of the decisions being made in Washington right now. A CCZ developed under American legal frameworks produces a different world than one developed under Chinese state direction, with output flowing into Chinese refineries, Chinese battery factories, and Chinese defense supply chains. The floor of the Pacific is the last great untapped resource extraction prize on Earth.” — From: $TMC