Group1 and Michigan Potash & Salt Company Announce Strategic Collaboration to Build America’s Potassium-to- Battery Supply Chain

Austin, TX / Evart, MI — November 20, 2025— Group1, Inc., a leader in potassium-ion battery (KIB) technology, and Michigan Potash & Salt Company, LLC (MPSC), developer of the United States’ largest potash and salt production facility, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to advance a fully domestic potassium supply chain—from mineral resource to advanced energy storage.

(Farm News Media) Potash added to Critical Minerals list in move to ‘unleash American innovation’

Potash has been added to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Critical Minerals list, building on the executive order President Donald J. Trump issued in March.
The draft list will guide federal strategy, investment, and permitting decisions designed to secure the minerals needed to drive the U.S. economy and protect national security, while informing direct investments in mining and resource recovery from mine waste, stockpiles, tax incentives for U.S. mineral processing, and streamlined mining permitting.

(Forbes Cover) How An Unassuming Geologist Cracked The Global Fertilizer Cartel

Michigan is sitting on a motherlode of potash and Ted Pagano is using $1.3 billion in government funds to mine it and grab market share away from Canada and Russia. The eureka moment came in 2012, when professor emeritus William Harrison of the University of Western Michigan invited Ted Pagano, then a 35-year-old freelance geologist, to his 27,000-square-foot geological repository in Kalamazoo.

Trump Administration Advances First Wave of Critical Mineral Production Projects

Today, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) announced increased transparency, accountability, and predictability for the permitting review process for the first wave of critical mineral production projects—with many more projects on the way—in response to President Trump’s Executive Order, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production.