Battery Age Joins U.S. Defense Consortium to Secure Critical Germanium Supply

• Membership in U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) grants access to Department of War critical minerals programs
• Germanium supply risk heightened by China’s export restrictions controlling 70% of global refined production
• Battery Age’s Bleiberg (Austria) and Apex (Utah) projects offer high-grade germanium resources in Western jurisdictions
• Advancing germanium enrichment technology aligns upstream exploration with downstream defence applications