{"id":207020,"date":"2025-10-12T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:31:08","slug":"australia-mulls-us-deal-777-million-rare-earth-fund-age-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207020\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Mulls US Deal, $777 Million Rare-Earth Fund, Age Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Australia is considering setting minimum prices for critical minerals and investing in new rare-earth projects as part of a potential resources deal with the US, the Age <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/albanese-scrambles-to-lock-in-minerals-deal-before-trump-meeting-20251006-p5n0b1.html\" title=\"Link to Newspaper Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The government has begun talks with miners about contributing to a A$1.2 billion ($777 million) strategic minerals reserve, the newspaper said, citing a leaked departmental brief circulated in recent weeks. The proposal under consideration includes possible price floors, government-backed loans, offtake guarantees and direct investment in Australian projects to bolster local producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is considering setting minimum prices for critical minerals and investing in new rare-earth projects as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1724,64,63,3686,99,512,111293,20097,32769,3786,5476,171,84],"class_list":["post-207020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-commodities-markets","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-emerging-markets","tag-government","tag-investing","tag-markets","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}