MP Materials

MP Materials Corp.
Company typePublic company
Industry
Founded2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Founders
  • James Litinsky
  • Michael Rosenthal
HeadquartersLas Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
James Litinsky
(Executive Chairman & CEO)
Michael Rosenthal
(COO)
ProductsRare earths in concentrate
Production output
38,500 tonnes[1] (2020)
OwnerJHL Capital Group, QVT Financial LP, James Litinsky, Shenghe Resources[2]
Number of employees
350 (2021[3])
Websitempmaterials.com
Footnotes / references
[4][5]
Mountain Pass Mine, California

MP Materials Corp. is an American rare-earth materials company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. MP Materials owns and operates the Mountain Pass mine, the only operating rare earth mine and processing facility in the United States.[6] The rare earth materials industry is dominated by China, which produces 60% of the world's rare earth elements and processes 90% of these materials, including imports from other countries.[7] MP Materials focuses its production on Neodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr), a rare earth material used in high-strength permanent magnets that power the traction motors found in electric vehicles, robotics, wind turbines, drones and other advanced motion technologies.[8] MP Materials is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "MP". As of December 2021, JHL Capital Group, QVT Financial and CEO James Litinsky were the company's three largest shareholders, with about 7.7% of the company owned by Shenghe Resources, a Chinese rare earth business located in Sichuan.[9]

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  2. ^ "Could The MP Materials Corp. (NYSE:MP) Ownership Structure Tell Us Something Useful?". Simply Wall Street. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  3. ^ Hudson, Sabrina (May 29, 2021). "Mine near Las Vegas produces much of world's rare earth materials". Las Vegas Review Journal. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "MP Materials Corp 2020 Form 8-K Quarterly Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Archived from the original on November 23, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  5. ^ "MP Materials Corp 2020 Q3 Summary" (Press release). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Archived from the original on February 4, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  6. ^ "The Californian Rare Earths Mine Caught Between Trump and China". Bloomberg News. September 27, 2018. Archived from the original on February 4, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  7. ^ Treadgold, Tim. "Rinehart's New Attack On China's Rare Earth Dominance". Forbes. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  8. ^ "MP Materials CEO says rare magnets supplier is a 'picks-and-shovels play' for EV market". CNBC. December 16, 2020. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  9. ^ "MP MATERIALS CORP. (MP)". MarketScreener. Retrieved July 18, 2022.