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What they make, where they produce, the materials that matter — then what is coming, what it would do to the business, and the moves available. Sector: mining metals. Ownership re-checked 2026-08-30 — exposure claims not re-checked since fill. Company profile →
Aclara Resources Inc. (TSX: ARA) is a Toronto-domiciled, pre-production rare-earth developer building a vertically integrated "mine-to-magnet" supply chain outside China. Rather than conventional hard-rock mining, it uses a patented low-impact leaching method ("Circular Mineral Harvesting") on ionic-clay deposits — the same deposit type China has historically dominated for heavy rare earths.
It holds two projects: the flagship Carina Project in Goiás, Brazil (feasibility-study stage, first declared Mineral Reserves for an ionic-clay project) and the earlier-stage Penco Module in Chile's Biobío region (developed with local industrial group Grupo CAP). It is not yet a producer at either site.
Verbatim from the dossier's “What they do” section — sources on the company profile.
This is where Aclara Resources produces — approximate output shares from its dossier — not where it sells. Sales geography is not yet in our corpus for any company, so we cannot compute exposure to measures that bite on where products ship: an extraterritorial re-export rule follows the shipment and its material content, not the factory. Where such a measure touches its materials, the policy sections below flag it — but its sales-side incidence is not computable yet, and we say so rather than substitute the production map for it.
Of everything in its products, we track the critical inputs — the materials whose supply is concentrated in few countries, policy-exposed, or hard to substitute — because those are the ones a single measure can move. Each carries its role in the product, quoted from the dossier's own exposure note.
Dysprosium and terbium — the company's entire value proposition. Unlike most rare-earth juniors, Aclara's strategic focus is explicitly the two heaviest, scarcest magnet rare earths — Dy and Tb — rather than the more abundant light REEs (Nd/Pr). These two elements are essential, non-substitutable additives that let permanent magnets retain coercivity at high temperature, making them critical for EV tr…
Dysprosium and terbium — the company's entire value proposition. Unlike most rare-earth juniors, Aclara's strategic focus is explicitly the two heaviest, scarcest magnet rare earths — Dy and Tb — rather than the more abundant light REEs (Nd/Pr). These two elements are essential, non-substitutable additives that let permanent magnets retain coercivity at high temperature, making them critical for EV tr…
Scope. The non-critical remainder of the bill of materials — structural steel, polymers, glass and the like — is not tracked here because it is not supply-constrained: this section covers the constrained inputs, which is where policy risk concentrates, not a full bill of materials.
The top 1 are ranked mechanically — what the instrument does (its transmission class: an export ban is not a reporting duty), × how close to law (stage-derived likelihood band, never a probability) × how much of your tracked bill of materials it touches. Each unfolds as a chain: trigger → what it hits → the response the instrument actually calls for. A measure touching a material you produce can be an opportunity, not a threat.
EU · stage announced → low likelihood · touches dysprosiumterbium · flagged 27 Jun 2026, 100d pending
Under the RESourceEU action plan (COM(2025) 945, adopted 3 Dec 2025 and already filed as 2025-12-03-eu-resourceeu-action-plan-com-2025-945), the European Commission committed to PROPOSE, by Q2 2026, restrictions on the export of scraps and waste of permanent magnets — an essential feedstock for European NdFeB recyclers that is increasingly shipped abroad (notably to China). Recycling could meet ~20% of the EU's ~20,000 t/yr permanent-magnet demand, so retaining end-of-life and pre-consumer magnet scrap in the EU is framed as a supply-security measure to reduce China dependence. Accompanying measures: a new EU-level Combined Nomenclature sub-code + European Waste Catalogue entry to identify/track permanent magnets and EoL products containing them, plus a targeted CRMA amendment on product-labelling and pre-consumer-waste recycling. If enacted as a binding export restriction this would be the EU's first outbound control on a critical-mineral waste stream — directly relevant to anyone in the EU/China REE-magnet recycling loop, and a mirror-image to China's REE/magnet export controls (re-prices intra-bloc vs ex-bloc scrap flows). The European recycling industry (BIR) has publicly warned the measure risks market distortion, so adoption/scope is contested.
source ↗Dysprosium and terbium — the company's entire value proposition. Unlike most rare-earth juniors, Aclara's strategic focus is explicitly the two heaviest, scarcest magnet rare earths — Dy and Tb — rather than the more abundant light REEs (Nd/Pr). These two elements are essential, non-substitutable additives that let permanent magnets retain coercivity at high temperature, making them critical for EV tr…
Dysprosium and terbium — the company's entire value proposition. Unlike most rare-earth juniors, Aclara's strategic focus is explicitly the two heaviest, scarcest magnet rare earths — Dy and Tb — rather than the more abundant light REEs (Nd/Pr). These two elements are essential, non-substitutable additives that let permanent magnets retain coercivity at high temperature, making them critical for EV tr…
dysprosium — you sit on the supply side: a measure tightening others' supply pushes buyers toward you, so your move is positioning, not substitution (chokepoint page).
terbium — you sit on the supply side: a measure tightening others' supply pushes buyers toward you, so your move is positioning, not substitution (chokepoint page).
2 of 44 filed an explicit in-force stage; the rest (flagged below) default from an absent stage: field, not a filed assertion. Each links to the register entry with its primary source.
⚠ Extraterritorial measure — switching supplier origin may not exit its scope.
China MOFCOM Announcement No. 1 [2026] — country-specific dual-use export controls on Japan claims reach over foreign-made goods (“extraterritorial”) — the rule follows the material, not the seller, so an alternative outside the issuer can still be captured if its products contain or are made with in-scope inputs. Verify each alternative's feedstock origin before treating it as an exit.
⚠ Extraterritorial measure — switching supplier origin may not exit its scope.
China State Council enacts unified Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items claims reach over foreign-made goods (“extraterritorial”) — the rule follows the material, not the seller, so an alternative outside the issuer can still be captured if its products contain or are made with in-scope inputs. Verify each alternative's feedstock origin before treating it as an exit.
For a material it buys, a restriction tightens supply and raises input cost — a headwind. For the 2 it produces, the same restriction supports pricing — a tailwind. Scores are footprint-adjusted and buyer-relative (0–100, higher = more exposed).
Its customers sit in ev batteries, permanent magnets, ev motors, wind turbines, defence… — read via the graph's critical minerals node, the nearest equivalent of its sector. A measure supporting those sectors supports demand for this company's products; one restricting them puts that demand at risk. The sign shown is the mechanical read — click through to judge whether a measure protects or constrains the customer.
Every tracked material is on the supply side — the strategy here is positioning, not substitution.
This company sits on the supply side of dysprosium. Restrictions by 🇨🇳 CN push buyers toward ex-CN producers — the strategy is to be visible where those buyers look: the dysprosium chokepoint page and the watchlist.
This company sits on the supply side of terbium. Restrictions by 🇨🇳 CN push buyers toward ex-CN producers — the strategy is to be visible where those buyers look: the terbium chokepoint page and the watchlist.
lib/policy-transmission.ts): an export prohibition in the measure's name/text → supply restriction; a raw/unprocessed-export limit or local-processing mandate → beneficiation (form change, not unavailability); reporting/disclosure/due-diligence language → compliance obligation; tariff/trade-remedy language → import cost; subsidy/fast-track/relaxation language → support; investment-screening/M&A language → investment control. When the text carries no signal we fall back to the action-type default and label the chip inferred; when neither exists the card says so and derives no response — we never assert a class the evidence doesn't support.lib/iptm-material-country-production.ts; mining stage preferred, refining as fallback — the stage and source year are in each figure's hover text). Ex-issuer supply removes the ISSUING country and renormalises the remaining listed shares (so they sum to 100% of what's left) — alternatives to the country making the rule, never a default ex-China list. Where the issuer holds no measurable share, the card says so plainly instead of implying supply loss.lib/alternative-viability.ts): each named alternative carries a deployment status — operating / ramping / restarting / development / unknown — derived from word-boundary signal phrases in its own dossier (“operating since 1896”, “restarting the … mine”, “FID taken”), and the verbatim matched phrase is shown as the basis so the claim is auditable; a dossier with no signal stays unknown, never guessed. Any evidenced production date is quoted verbatim (“first production targeted H2 2029” → “no tonnes before 2029”) — we never synthesize one. A measure whose own text claims extraterritorial / re-export / de-minimis / foreign-direct-product / percentage-of-value scope triggers the origin-switching warning above the list: such a rule follows the material, not the seller, so a foreign-made alternative can still be captured. Same-issuer register actions targeting an alternative's country and material mark it may be captured, with the entries linked. “Capacity partly committed” lines quote the dossier verbatim — we hold no structured free-capacity numbers and never imply a utilisation figure.How MacroLens tracks this for you. The policy register files new measures daily and this page recomputes from it — the same chokepoints are monitored live on the watchlist and in the full register.