MP Materials Corp. / DE (MP) Business

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Overview

MP Materials Corp., including its subsidiaries (the “Company,” “MP Materials,” “we,” “our,” and “us”), is the largest producer of rare earth materials in the Western Hemisphere. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Company owns and operates the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility (“Mountain Pass”) located near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California, the only rare earth mining and processing site of scale in North America. Additionally, the Company owns and operates a rare earth metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas (“Independence” or the “Independence Facility”), where the Company produces and sells magnetic precursor products and commenced the manufacturing of neodymium-iron-boron (“NdFeB”) permanent magnets in December 2025. The Company’s operations are organized into two reportable segments: Materials and Magnetics.

The Materials segment represents the upstream and midstream operations of the Company, which primarily consist of Mountain Pass, a fully integrated mining and refining facility producing refined rare earth oxides and related products. The Materials segment generates revenue primarily from sales of neodymium-praseodymium (“NdPr”) oxide and metal, primarily sold to customers in Japan, South Korea, and broader Asia. The Materials segment historically generated the majority of its revenue from sales of rare earth concentrate primarily to a distributor that, in turn, typically sold that product to refiners in China.

The Magnetics segment represents the downstream magnet manufacturing and related operations of the Company, which currently consist of the Independence Facility, a fully integrated metal, alloy, and magnet manufacturing plant. The Magnetics segment began generating revenue from sales of magnetic precursor products to General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) (“GM”) in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2025.

On July 9, 2025, the Company entered into definitive agreements with the United States Department of War (the “DoW”), formerly known as the Department of Defense, (collectively, the “DoW Transaction Agreements”) establishing a transformational public-private partnership with the DoW to accelerate the build-out of an end-to-end U.S. rare earth magnet supply chain and reduce foreign dependency (the “DoW Transactions”). This partnership is further described in Note 3, “Public-Private Partnership with U.S. Department of War,” in the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, which includes certain defined terms related to the DoW Transaction Agreements.

In connection with the DoW Transactions, the Company will expand its Independence Facility, construct a second domestic magnet manufacturing facility (the “10X Facility”) and extend its heavy rare earth elements (“HREE”) refining capability at Mountain Pass. Additionally, as outlined in the DoW Offtake Agreement, the DoW has guaranteed that the 10X Facility will generate at least $140 million of EBITDA (as defined in the DoW Offtake Agreement, and subject to annual escalation) and has the right to purchase all of the magnets produced at the 10X Facility (which may instead be commercially syndicated). Separately, the Company entered into an NdPr price floor protection agreement with the DoW (the “Price Protection Agreement” or “PPA”) for the Company’s NdPr products produced at Mountain Pass that are sold or produced and stockpiled starting in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Certain rare earth elements (“REE”) serve as critical inputs for the rare earth magnets inside the electric motors, generators, and other components essential to automotive technologies, including those used in hybrid and electric vehicles (referred to collectively as “xEVs”), as well as advanced electronics, aerospace and defense systems, energy products, robotics and many other high-growth, advanced technologies. Our integrated operations at Mountain Pass combine low production costs with high environmental standards, thereby restoring American leadership to a critical industry with a strong commitment to sustainability. The Company believes businesses are increasingly prioritizing diversification and security of their global supply chains to reduce reliance on a single producer or region for critical materials. As the only scaled and vertically integrated source in North America for critical rare earths and magnet materials, with a processing footprint designed to operate with best-in-class sustainability and an industry-leading cost structure, the Company believes it is well-positioned to thrive as global manufacturers and the United States prioritize domestic manufacturing and secure supply chains.

The Company’s mission is to maximize stockholder returns over the long-term by executing a disciplined business strategy to restore the full rare earth magnetics supply chain to the United States of America. The Company believes it will generate positive outcomes for U.S. national security and industry, the U.S. workforce, and the environment.

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Rare Earth Industry Overview

REE are crucial enablers of modern technologies spanning transportation, electronics, physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) and robotics that have permeated modern society. REE are used in supporting, but often critical, amounts in hundreds of different technologies, materials, and chemicals worldwide for commercial, industrial, social, medical, and environmental applications. In the last several decades, REE have become deeply integrated into the foundation of modern technology and industry and have proven to be difficult to duplicate or replace.

By economic value, neodymium-praseodymium (previously defined as “NdPr,” also referred to as “PrNd” or “didymium”) is the largest segment of the REE market. NdPr is primarily used in NdFeB permanent magnets for electric machines such as EV traction motors, wind power generators, drones, robotics, electronics and a growing list of other applications. The rapid growth of these and other end-use markets is expected to drive substantial demand growth for NdPr and NdFeB magnets in the years ahead.

The REE group includes 17 elements, primarily the 15 lanthanide elements. Lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium and promethium are considered “light” REE (“LREE”); samarium, europium and gadolinium are often referred to as “medium” REE; while terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium are considered “heavy” REE (“HREE”). Two additional elements, yttrium and scandium, are often classified as HREE although they are not lanthanides. Depending upon the rare earth-bearing mineral, the relative abundance of light, medium and heavy REE will differ. The REE in the Mountain Pass ore body are contained primarily within bastnaesite and related minerals in which LREE are predominant.

The aggregate global market for rare earth oxides (“REO”) totaled approximately 252,000 metric tons (“MTs”) in 2025 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of approximately 6.0% through 2040, according to research by Adamas Intelligence Inc. (“Adamas”). Further, Adamas estimates that the NdPr segment of the REO market, which makes up a significant majority of the market value, is expected to grow at an 8.4% CAGR through 2040, well in excess of the overall REO market. This expected growth will be driven by secular growth in demand for NdPr magnets.

Rare earth materials are used in a diverse array of end markets, including:

•Electric Mobility: traction motors in passenger xEVs, commercial xEVs, special purpose vehicles, two-wheelers, and other applications;

•Industrial, Consumer and Professional Service Robotics: motors, actuators, brakes and sensors used in industrial robots and welders, as well as consumer, service and humanoid robots, and other physical AI applications;

•Renewable Power Generation: wind power generators, for on- and offshore applications;

•Energy-Efficient Motors, Pumps and Compressors: heating, ventilation and air conditioning (“HVAC”) systems, elevators, escalators, consumer appliances and other industrial applications;

•Consumer and Medical Applications: smart phones, tablets, laptops, hard disk drives, audio speakers, microphones, cameras, printers, cordless power tools as well as fiber optics, laser crystals, x-ray equipment, prostheses, dental crowns and more;

•Critical Defense Systems: guidance and control systems, communications, avionics, global positioning systems, radar and sonar, drones, thermal barrier coatings and firearms; and

•Catalysts and Phosphors: catalysts for vehicle emissions reduction and fuel refining, as well as phosphors for energy-efficient lighting, backlighting and counterfeit currency detection.

Process

The Company has established a three-stage business plan to enable and scale the full rare earth supply chain. Processing of rare earth materials at Mountain Pass includes five primary process steps: (i) mining and crushing; (ii) milling and flotation; (iii) roasting, leaching and impurity removal; (iv) separation and extraction; and (v) product finishing. Manufacturing of magnets at the Independence Facility includes the following process steps: (i) electrowinning; (ii) strip casting; (iii) powder processing, (iv) pressing; (v) sintering; (vi) machining; and (vii) finishing.

Through its upstream operations, which comprise the first two of the process steps at Mountain Pass, the Company produces rare earth concentrate that was historically marketed to refiners primarily through a distribution arrangement. In 2023, the Company commenced midstream operations, consisting of the latter three primary process steps, to produce separated rare earth products that are marketed directly to end users and indirectly through distributors, with revenue generated primarily from the magnet supply chain. Through its midstream operations, the Company produces NdPr oxide and other separated rare earth products, including cerium and lanthanum products, as well as SEG+, a mixed heavy rare earth product.

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The Company has also established downstream capabilities at its Independence Facility to convert a portion of the REO produced at Mountain Pass into rare earth magnets and its precursor products to be marketed directly to end users. The Company’s Materials segment includes both upstream and midstream operations, while downstream operations constitute the Magnetics segment.

Upstream Operations

Following the acquisition of Mountain Pass in July 2017, the Company implemented an upstream operations optimization plan that established stable and scaled production of rare earth concentrate by leveraging the site’s existing processing facilities. As a result, the Company believes it has achieved world-class production cost levels for rare earth concentrate. The upstream operations include the mining of primarily bastnaesite ore followed by comminution, which involves crushing and grinding the ore into a milled slurry. The slurry is then processed by froth flotation, whereby the bastnaesite is carried to the surface while the gangue, or non-desired, elements are suppressed and disposed as tailings.

The Company continues to optimize its upstream operations to improve mineral recovery and concentrate grade. In November 2023, the Company announced its “Upstream 60K” strategy whereby the Company intends to grow its annual REO Production Volume to approximately 60,000 MTs via investments in further beneficiation capability and through better usage of lower-grade ore and other underutilized parts of the Mountain Pass ore body.

Midstream Operations

In 2023, the Company completed an optimization and recommissioning project and commenced midstream operations, which consist of the production of separated REE from the rare earth concentrate produced in the Company’s upstream operations, as well as from the separation of third-party feedstock, including recycled materials. The optimization project incorporated upgrades and enhancements to the prior facility process flow to produce separated REE at a lower cost while minimizing the impact on the environment. More specifically, the Company reintroduced an oxidizing roasting circuit, reoriented portions of the plant process flow, increased product finishing capacity, improved wastewater management, and made other improvements to materials handling and storage.

The roasting step that oxidizes the rare earth concentrate in a rotary kiln is crucial to ensuring cost-competitiveness. One of the unique attributes of bastnaesite ore is the ability to convert the cerium in the mixed rare earth concentrate to tetravalent cerium that has a low propensity to dissolve, enabling cerium to be removed expediently along with other insoluble gangue elements without selective extraction. Removal of the lower-value cerium early in the Company’s separations process allows for a significant reduction in the mass of material to be separated and finished, thus reducing the energy, reagents, and wastewater required to produce the higher-value NdPr. Additionally, roasting facilitates a lower temperature leach that reduces maintenance costs and downtime.

In February 2022, the Company was selected by the DoW Office of Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment to design and build a facility for the processing and separation of HREE, which will be built at Mountain Pass and will be integrated into the rest of the Company’s facilities (the “HREE Facility”). The HREE Facility will establish, for the first time in many years, commercial-scale HREE processing in the U.S. in support of commercial and defense applications. The Company is currently advancing the construction of the HREE Facility, with commissioning expected in 2026. Initially, the HREE Facility is expected to primarily produce terbium and dysprosium products principally for use in the Magnetics segment. In addition, as part of its partnership with the DoW, the Company committed to further extend its HREE refining capability at Mountain Pass to include the production of samarium oxide.

Additionally, as part of its definitive, long-term supply agreement with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) (“Apple”), the Company is incorporating magnet scrap recycling capabilities at Mountain Pass. This includes the construction of a commercial-scale, dedicated recycling line that will enable the production of rare earth magnets using recycled rare earth feedstock, processed at Mountain Pass and sourced from post-industrial and end-of-life magnets.

Downstream Operations and Future Capabilities

In February 2022, the Company commenced construction of the Independence Facility, the first fully-integrated rare earth metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing facility in the United States. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, the Independence Facility, which also serves as the business and engineering headquarters for the Company’s Magnetics segment, converts NdPr oxide produced at Mountain Pass into permanent magnets and its precursor products, with integrated capabilities to support magnet recycling. As part of its partnership with the DoW, the Company committed to expand capacity of the Independence Facility to a projected 3,000 MTs of magnets annually.

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Production begins with the reduction of NdPr oxide through electrowinning, producing NdPr metal for downstream alloying. The metal is combined with iron, boron, and other alloying metals and processed through strip casting, forming NdFeB alloy flake that serves as the precursor for powder metallurgy operations. The alloy flake is then converted into powder through hydrogen decrepitation and jet milling, producing a highly refined NdFeB powder engineered for magnet performance. This powder is compacted into “green” magnet bodies through pressing and subsequently sintered at high temperatures to form dense NdFeB magnet blocks. Following sintering, magnets undergo precision machining to achieve final dimensions and may receive additional processing such as grain boundary diffusion and surface finishing to enhance product durability and magnetic performance.

In 2024, the Company commissioned electrowinning capabilities at the Independence Facility to produce NdPr metal from NdPr oxide, and in 2025, the Company added strip casting capabilities to produce NdFeB alloy flake, a key precursor product that is utilized as the material feedstock for magnet manufacturing. At the end of 2025, the Company began commissioning the remaining commercial scale equipment for magnet manufacturing and commenced the manufacturing of its NdFeB permanent magnets.

Additionally, as part of its commitment to the DoW, the Company agreed to construct the 10X Facility, which will be the Company’s second domestic rare earth magnet manufacturing facility. The 10X Facility is expected to begin commissioning in 2028, and once completed and scaled, it will produce an estimated 7,000 MTs of magnets per year. When combined with the Independence Facility’s 3,000 MTs per year of magnets, the Company’s overall U.S. rare earth magnet production capacity will expand to an estimated 10,000 MTs per year, thus significantly scaling domestic output to serve both defense and commercial customers.

Strategy

Offer the Western Hemisphere a trusted, sustainable source of supply for materials and components that enable the development of critical industries.

More than 70 years of operations at Mountain Pass have demonstrated that the Company’s ore body is one of the world’s largest and highest-grade rare earth resources. The low-volume nature of rare earth mining coupled with the exceptional scale and quality of the ore body results in a resource with significant viability well into the future.

The Company believes Mountain Pass is one of the largest, most advanced and efficient fully-integrated REO processing facilities in the world, and the only such facility located in the Western Hemisphere. Through its operations, the Company aims to provide users of rare earths a U.S. alternative that helps avoid the risks associated with the single point-of-failure that Chinese producers represent.

The U.S. government continues to emphasize the importance of supply chain security for critical minerals and related components, particularly those required for industrial capacity, national defense, and technological leadership. This focus is reflected in initiatives to encourage domestic production and processing of rare earth materials, including the Company’s public-private partnership with the DoW to accelerate the build-out of an end-to-end U.S. rare earth magnet supply chain. The Company believes its location, scale, and integration provide a competitive advantage relative to non-U.S. rare earth producers.

Demand for rare earth permanent magnets is increasingly driven by applications beyond automotive, energy, and electronics, particularly service and humanoid robots and other physical AI applications, as well as critical defense systems. These applications require high‑performance magnetic materials with increasingly stringent specifications, long product lifecycles, and secure, traceable supply chains. As electrification, automation, and advanced manufacturing continue to scale globally, the Company believes demand for rare earth magnet materials will grow over time.

A combination of geopolitical uncertainty, reshoring initiatives, and labor constraints is leading industrial original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) to reconfigure their supply chains to prioritize reliability, resilience, and domestic or allied‑nation sourcing. As robotics, physical AI applications, critical defense systems, and other advanced technologies become increasingly central to productivity and economic competitiveness, OEMs are expected to continue seeking long‑term partnerships with suppliers capable of delivering consistent quality at scale. The Company is strategically positioned to support these customers by offering an integrated, Western supply chain solution for rare earth materials and magnet products, leveraging its ownership of Mountain Pass and expanding downstream magnet manufacturing capabilities.

Leverage the Company’s low-cost position to maximize earnings power in all commodity price environments.

The success of the Company’s business reflects its ability to manage its costs. The Company’s production achievements in its upstream operations have provided economies of scale to lower production costs per unit of REO produced in concentrate.

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Furthermore, midstream operations were designed to enable the Company to continue to manage its cost structure for separating REE through an optimized facility process flow. This process flow allows the Company to use less energy and raw materials per ton of separated REO. While the initial phase of NdPr oxide production resulted in elevated per-unit costs, the Company has begun to realize cost improvements and anticipates per-unit production costs to decline further over time as production volumes increase and operational efficiencies continue to improve.

Optimization of logistics is also central to maintaining a low-cost position relative to other global producers. Mountain Pass, located immediately adjacent to Interstate 15 and within a one-hour drive of a major railhead and a four-hour drive of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, offers transportation advantages that create meaningful cost efficiencies in securing incoming supplies and shipping its final products. The Company believes the self-contained nature of its operations, with mining, milling, separations, and finishing all on one site, creates additional cost advantages and operational risk mitigation. In addition, the Mountain Pass site includes a currently idle chlor-alkali facility that the Company has committed to recommissioning as part of its partnership with the DoW to produce key raw materials used in separations. Upon achieving the designed throughput of separated products, the Company’s integrated site will incur lower costs of packaging, handling and transportation as compared to competitors who lack co-located processing.

Further the Company’s mission and ability to capture the full rare earth value chain through downstream integration into rare earth magnet production.

At Independence, with GM as a foundational customer, the Company is furthering vertical integration through downstream processing of REO into finished rare earth magnets and precursor products and incorporating process waste and end-of-life magnet recycling. As discussed above, during 2024 and 2025, the Company commissioned its electrowinning capabilities to produce NdPr metal from NdPr oxide and introduced capabilities to produce NdFeB alloy flake, a key precursor product that is utilized as the material feedstock for magnet manufacturing. At the end of 2025, the Company began commissioning the remaining commercial scale equipment for magnet manufacturing and commenced the manufacturing of NdFeB permanent magnets.

Throughout 2025, the Company made significant progress in advancing its engineering and manufacturing technology capabilities and continued to meaningfully expand its magnetics team of scientists, technicians, and engineers, which now comprises more than 180 employees. These achievements at Independence represent a significant milestone towards re-establishing a fully integrated, domestic supply chain for these critical components for the first time in decades. By offering magnet customers a complete, end-to-end Western supply chain solution, the Company believes vertical integration represents a material incremental value creation opportunity, which the Company is uniquely positioned to provide given its ownership of Mountain Pass.

Beyond re-establishing a supply chain for REE in the Western Hemisphere, the Company expects to capitalize on the growing demand for downstream magnetic materials. In aiming to achieve technical and cost leadership, the Company expects it will continue to explore opportunities to invest in, develop, and/or sponsor new downstream initiatives for REO and rare earth products that support industrial electrification. The Company’s progress to date underscores its ability to identify undervalued assets, execute disciplined strategies, and assemble skilled management. The Company will leverage its expertise across the critical minerals value chain, responsibly allocating capital to benefit stockholders and align with its mission.

Human Capital Resources

MP Materials’ employees are the Company’s most valuable asset in fulfilling its mission. At the core of the Company’s success is the relentless pursuit to maintain and nurture an owner-operator culture that instills an entrepreneurial spirit where employees feel motivated and empowered to deliver results through an unwavering commitment to doing what is right in a safe environment. In order to promote MP Materials’ owner-operator culture, every employee receives a discretionary grant of time-vested restricted stock units after joining the Company. The Company believes equity ownership reinforces the employees’ sense of their contribution to the Company’s success.

Ensuring the Company attracts, develops and retains top talent across all functions with diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives is critical to the Company’s success. An employee retention rate of approximately 96% was achieved in every calendar quarter during 2025, which continues to demonstrate the Company’s priorities of ensuring its team is healthy, incentivized, proud to work for MP Materials, and believes in the Company’s mission.

Employees

Since relaunching production at Mountain Pass in July 2017, the Company has increased its full-time equivalent (“FTE”) employee base from eight contractors in 2017 to 998 employees as of December 31, 2025, of which approximately 83% were

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field-based employees. The FTE employee count grew by 24% in 2025, following an 18% increase in 2024. None of the Company’s employees are subject to any collective bargaining agreements. The Company remains committed to creating and expanding employment opportunities for U.S. workers and has added over 300 employees in the past two years, including over 100 new employees at the Independence Facility in 2025.

Health, Safety and Well-Being

The health, safety, and well-being of the Company’s employees, suppliers and communities are a priority, with “Safety” being one of the Company’s six core values, along with “Empowerment,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Integrity,” “Results,” and “Unwavering” effort. MP Materials is committed to maintaining a strong safety culture and continues to emphasize the importance of its employees’ role in identifying, mitigating and communicating safety risks. To ensure the ongoing safety of employees and any contractors working on-site, the Company has a clear set of health and safety guidelines in place and routinely conducts general as well as equipment- and process-specific safety training. The Company believes that the achievement of superior safety performance is both an important short-term and long-term strategic imperative in managing its operations.

All newly-hired employees at Mountain Pass complete a minimum of 24 hours of Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) training during the onboarding process and must, at a minimum, complete annual refresher training. Following their initial training, depending on their job classification, new employees complete targeted online and supervised field training specific to their roles and responsibilities. For example, operations and maintenance workers go through specific Lock Out/Tag Out/Try Out training, confined-space work and rescue, and forklift classroom and in-the-field training. In total, during 2025, the Company’s employees completed over 15,000 hours of new hire and/or annual refresher training and over 2,500 hours of emergency medical response training, including first aid and CPR.

The Company utilizes a formalized digital data reporting system to track all incidents reportable to the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration and MSHA. The Company tracks lost time injuries, recordable injuries, recordable injury rates, and near-miss reports. MP Materials strongly encourages the reporting of near-miss incidents so that it can mitigate hazards or change procedures to improve workforce safety in advance of any actual incident.

Diversity and Meritocracy

MP Materials believes that a diverse and meritocratic workforce and Board of Directors produces better overall decision-making for employees, which benefits the organization. In prioritizing hiring employees with the requisite skills, the Company continues to assemble a diverse workforce. As of December 31, 2025, based on employees’ self-reporting, veterans and women represented 3% and 16%, respectively, of the Company’s workforce and 22% of managerial or supervisory positions were occupied by women. As of December 31, 2025, women represented 28% of the Company’s Board of Directors. Additionally, as of December 31, 2025, 51% of the Company’s workforce was composed of underrepresented minorities.

Employee Engagement and Development

Employee engagement efforts are critical in ensuring all employees feel heard, respected, and valued, and that applicable actions are taken when feedback is received. The Company holds events to encourage collaboration and recognize individual and collective contributions, as well as to facilitate interaction between employees and senior and executive leadership.

Methodical execution is key to ensuring Company goals are achieved and exceeded. To ensure the Company’s employees receive the feedback they need to grow and thrive in their careers, MP Materials continually reviews and updates its performance-management processes. The Company ensures that new hires receive the feedback and support they need by scheduling periodic performance evaluations during their introductory periods. Managers hold reviews with all employees no less than annually to give them an opportunity to discuss work performance. This performance management process, rooted in the values of the organization, sets the foundation for applicable goal setting, individual development plans and career pathways going forward.

MP Materials is dedicated to the continual training and development of its employees, especially of those in field operations, to ensure the Company develops future managers and leaders from within its organization. The training starts on an employee’s first day with on-boarding procedures that focus on safety, responsibility, ethical conduct, and collaborative teamwork. In addition, the Company has partnered with educational institutions, governmental authorities, and strategic outside organizations to further enhance and improve access to the talent required to advance the Company’s mission. The Company also has an electrical and instrumentation apprenticeship program that pays for employees to attend trade school to increase their opportunity for future advancement. In 2025, the Company began expanding its leadership training efforts for experienced and up-and-coming leaders.

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Sustainability and Natural Resources

The Company’s business provides a key input to carbon-reducing technologies critical for the transition to a low-carbon economy. Further, MP Materials is solving for the foreign-controlled overconcentration of the rare earth supply while helping to enable a more sustainable future. Sustainability at MP Materials means much more than maintaining environmentally conscious operations; it means caring for the health, safety, and well-being of our employees; encouraging a spirit of joint ownership, entrepreneurship, and continuous growth; supporting the communities that surround us; and operating with integrity. The Company recognizes that it has a responsibility to operate as efficiently as possible to reduce emissions.

The Company believes Mountain Pass is the world’s cleanest and most environmentally sustainable rare earth production facility. Producing rare earth materials requires significant energy and resources and can lead to environmental challenges if not carefully managed. MP Materials understands that our natural resources, such as water, are precious and limited. As such, the Company is committed to limiting resource consumption, increasing efficiency, and achieving as light of an environmental footprint as possible. The Company does this, in part, by investing in water recycling, reducing reagent usage, implementing energy reduction initiatives, and utilizing a dry stack tailings process. Additionally, as noted above, the Company is incorporating magnet scrap recycling capabilities that will enable the production of rare earth magnets using recycled rare earth feedstock, processed at Mountain Pass and sourced from post-industrial and end-of-life magnets, creating a closed-loop supply chain that underscores the Company’s commitment to sustainability.

The Company believes it is unique among scaled rare earth producers in its use of a dry tailings process that allows recycling of the water used in the milling and flotation circuit and eliminates the need for high-risk wet tailings ponds and traditional impoundment dams. The Company’s tailings and concentrate dewatering methods provide a closed-loop water resource for its beneficiation process satisfying approximately 95% of those processes’ water needs at Mountain Pass. The Company also has a variety of initiatives underway at Mountain Pass to limit freshwater withdrawal and maximize recycling. In addition, the Company remains focused on ensuring the most efficient use of energy to minimize hydrocarbon consumption and greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions.

The materials that the Company produces are essential to the supply chains for many technologies that help decarbonize the global economy, improve productivity in the workforce, and better the lives of many. Without MP Materials’ conscientiously-mined materials, not only will the future of magnetic technologies depend on more highly polluting traditional production methods, but the advanced research and development related to these vital applications and their manufacturing will continue to follow that supply overseas. MP Materials is restoring the resource independence of the U.S.— removing the single point-of-failure in the supply chain for these products and ensuring that American industry can determine its own future in the automotive, robotics, aerospace, renewable energy, and information technology industries.

Customers

Materials Segment

Historically, the Company sold the vast majority of its rare earth concentrate to a single, principal distributor in China under the terms of the Shenghe Offtake Agreement (as defined in Note 21, “Related-Party Transactions,” in the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements). In July 2025, to align with the terms of the DoW Transaction Agreements and in further support of its domestic supply chain objectives, the Company ceased all sales of its products to China.

In February 2023, the Company entered into a distributorship agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”) with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (“Sumitomo”), under which Sumitomo serves as the exclusive distributor of the NdPr oxide and NdPr metal produced by the Company to Japanese customers through the end of 2030.

The Company also regularly enters into short- and long-term sales contracts with other customers for the sale of its separated rare earth products.

Magnetics Segment

In April 2022, the Company entered into a long-term agreement to supply magnets and precursor products manufactured at the Independence Facility to GM as its foundational customer.

In July 2025, the Company entered into a definitive, long-term supply agreement with Apple for the development, manufacture, and supply of magnets from the Independence Facility, as well as the development and installation of scaled recycling capabilities at Mountain Pass to produce the contained rare earths from post-industrial and post-consumer recycled rare earth feedstocks.

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The Company is also pursuing sales opportunities to other customers for its future magnet products.

Suppliers

The Materials segment uses certain proprietary chemical reagents in its flotation process, which it currently purchases from third-party suppliers. The hydrometallurgy, separations, and product finishing processes are reliant upon certain commodity reagents. These chemicals are subject to pricing volatility, supply availability and other restrictions and guidelines. In the event of a supply disruption or any other restriction, the Company believes that alternative reagents could be sourced for certain processes. As operations continue to scale at the Independence Facility, starting in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Materials segment began to supply the Magnetics segment with NdPr oxide produced at Mountain Pass. In addition, certain raw materials currently used or expected to be used in the production of metal and magnets are subject to pricing volatility, supply availability and other restrictions and guidelines.

Patents, Trademarks and Licenses

The Company relies on a combination of trade secret protection, nondisclosure and licensing agreements, patents and trademarks to establish and protect its proprietary intellectual property rights. The Company utilizes patents, trade secret protection and nondisclosure agreements to protect its proprietary rare earth technology.

Competition

The rare earth mining, processing, and magnetics manufacturing markets are capital-intensive and highly competitive. With continued state-sponsored consolidation, there remain two major rare earth groups in China. These groups and their affiliates control (and/or allocate to unaffiliated third parties) substantially all of China’s quota for concentrate production and rare earth refining. In 2025, China took additional steps to consolidate control of the industry into the two major groups through export and import limitations, as well as adjustments to the production quota system. Outside of China, there are few producers operating at scale, with only one other major integrated operator across Australia and Malaysia. China also maintains a dominant position in the supply of NdFeB permanent magnets due to its vast rare earth reserves, advanced processing capabilities, and vertically integrated production infrastructure.

Environmental and Regulatory Matters

The Company is subject to numerous federal, state and local environmental laws, certifications, regulations, permits, and other legal requirements applicable to the mining, mineral processing, and magnetics manufacturing industries including, without limitation, those pertaining to employee health and safety, air quality standards and emissions, water usage, wastewater and stormwater discharges, GHG emissions, hazardous and radioactive and other waste management, storage and handling of naturally occurring radioactive material, plant and wildlife protection, remediation of contamination, land use, reclamation and restoration of properties, procurement of certain materials used in the Company’s operations, groundwater quality and the use of explosives. Environmental laws and regulations continue to evolve, which may require the Company to meet stricter standards and give rise to greater enforcement, result in increased fines and penalties for non-compliance, and result in a heightened degree of responsibility for companies and their officers, directors and employees. Future laws, regulations, permits or legal requirements, as well as the re-interpretation or change in enforcement of existing requirements, may require substantial increases in capital or operating costs to achieve and maintain compliance or otherwise delay, limit or prohibit operations, or impose other restrictions upon the Company’s current or future operations, or result in the imposition of fines and penalties for failure to comply.

Complying with these regulations is complicated and requires significant attention and resources. The Company expects to continue to incur significant sums for ongoing environmental matters, including salaries and expenditures for monitoring, compliance, remediation, reporting, pollution control equipment and permitting.

Information About Our Executive Officers

The persons serving as executive officers of MP Materials and their positions with the Company are as follows:

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James H. Litinsky. Mr. Litinsky is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MP Materials. Mr. Litinsky is also the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of JHL Capital Group LLC (“JHL”), an alternative investment management firm. Before founding JHL in 2006, he was a member of the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund at Fortress Investment Group (“Fortress”). Prior to Fortress, he was a Director of Finance at Omnicom Group, and he worked as a merchant banker at Allen & Company. Mr. Litinsky received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University, cum laude, and a J.D./M.B.A. from the Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar.

Michael Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal is a Founder and the Chief Operating Officer of MP Materials. He has managed the Mountain Pass operation since the Company acquired the site in 2017. Before MP Materials, he was a Partner at QVT Financial (“QVT”), an investment management firm. At QVT, Mr. Rosenthal concentrated on investments in the global automotive sector and in China. Prior to joining QVT, he worked as a senior high yield credit analyst for Shenkman Capital Management. Mr. Rosenthal graduated from Duke University with an A.B. degree in Economics and Comparative Area Studies.

Ryan Corbett. Mr. Corbett joined MP Materials as its Chief Financial Officer in 2019. Prior to joining MP Materials, he was a Managing Director at JHL, where he focused on JHL’s investment in MP Materials. Before JHL, Mr. Corbett was a member of alternative asset managers Brahman Capital Corp. and King Street Capital Management LP, both based in New York, where he focused on special situations investments across the capital structure. Mr. Corbett began his career in investment banking and corporate finance at Morgan Stanley & Co. after graduating magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Finance.

Elliot Hoops. Mr. Hoops joined MP Materials as its General Counsel and Secretary in May 2021. Prior to joining MP Materials, he was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Penn National Gaming, Inc. (now known as PENN Entertainment, Inc. (“PENN”)), a regional gaming company, from January 2019 to May 2021, where he was responsible for a variety of legal matters, including commercial transactions, financings, corporate governance, securities law and gaming regulatory compliance. Prior to joining PENN, he was Vice President and Legal Counsel at Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (“Pinnacle”), a regional gaming company (which was acquired by PENN), from June 2007 to October 2018. Prior to Pinnacle, he was an associate at Holland & Knight LLP and an attorney advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Mr. Hoops received his B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, J.D. from the University of Miami, and LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.

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