Milestone Completes the Air Permitting Required for All Four Phase I Production Lines and Advances the Marion Supersite Toward Multi-Element Commercial Operations

Germanium and Heavy Rare Earths (Y, Gd, Sm, Dy, Tb) Make Up a Significant Portion of ReElements' Order Book From Both Recycled and Virgin Ore From the Commercial and Defense Industries

FISHERS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / August 19, 2026 / American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) ("American Resources"), through its minority holding in ReElement Technologies Corporation ("ReElement"), a leading U.S. innovator in rare earth element (REE) and critical mineral refining, today announced that it has received its Minor Source air permit for all planned production lines at its Marion, Indiana Supersite. The permit represents another major milestone in the commissioning and commercialization of the Marion Supersite and demonstrate how ReElement, the City of Marion, Grant County, State of Indiana and the federal government worked collaboratively to complete a comprehensive review of one of the nation's first modular critical mineral refining facilities.

The Marion Supersite is designed to refine and purify rare earth elements and other critical minerals using ReElement's advanced chromatography-based separation and purification platform for rare earth elements and critical minerals. The four-line facility is being developed to support the production of separated high-purity products including germanium, gallium, neodymium, neodymium-praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, gadolinium, yttrium and samarium from a diverse range of recycled materials, industrial byproducts and mineral feedstocks.