Titan Mining signs Army term sheet for graphite plant in Alabama

Titan Mining's Empire State Mines signed a term sheet with the U.S. Army to build a commercial graphite processing facility on about 97 acres at Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, with a lease structure allowing up to 100 years of tenure.

Why it matters: It would be the first commercial graphite purification plant on a U.S. defense installation, a direct bid to loosen China's grip on more than 90 percent of battery-grade graphite processing.

Data as of Titan Mining announcement October 7, 2026. Single-sourced to the company release; Army confirmation and commercial terms beyond the term sheet not independently corroborated in this pass.

Titan Mining said Wednesday its subsidiary Empire State Mines signed a term sheet with the U.S. Department of the Army establishing commercial terms for an Enhanced Use Lease to develop a graphite processing facility on Army property. The framework targets roughly 97 acres at Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, with diligence continuing at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas and Fort Drum in New York.

The plant would produce purified micronized graphite in phase one and coated spherical purified graphite, a lithium-ion anode material, after customer qualification. The lease runs 50 years with two 25-year renewal options. Titan, the only end-to-end U.S. producer of natural flake graphite, says the facility answers America’s full reliance on foreign-controlled graphite supply chains under the administration’s March 2025 critical-minerals executive order.

Titan Mining signs Army term sheet for graphite plant in Alabama

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