Critical minerals fundamentally underpin everything that we do every day.

It's in your phone, your AirPods, your screens, your laptops, everything that we use,

how they're refined and how they're mined, that all happens in the background.

There's not that many massive markets left that have been sort of like largely untapped by technology

and mining sort of screams one of the

largest markets in the world. This is the intersection of geopolitical urgency in tech. Now we have

technology that can actually go and disrupt this, but also as a talent-based, hard tech companies

working in sort of dirty spaces, willing to go out in the field. So now is it time to build this

company. It's a huge problem.

We have to figure out how to address it.

And that means investing in mining in the U.S. again.

It can take more than 15 years to permit and build a new mine in the United States.

And yet nearly every modern technology we rely on, from smartphones to fighter jets to AI data centers,

depends on a steady supply of critical materials. Today, we're joined by Turner Caldwell,

founder of Mariana Minerals, along with American Dynamism General Partner Aaron Pricewright

and partner Ryan McIntosh. Turner spent nearly a decade at Tesla, working his way upstream from factory design

to battery materials and mining. Now he's building a new kind of mining and refining company,

vertically integrated in software first, designed to meet the demand our industrial future requires.

We get into why this industry is so broken, what it actually takes to turn rocks into usable materials,

and how the U.S. can rebuild its capacity to mine, refine, and manufacture the things that matter

most. Let's get into it. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only.

Should not be taken as legal business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate

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