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Atlas Critical Minerals Appoints Chief Technical Officer with Proven Track Record Across Multiple Critical Minerals
Process Engineer Brings 15+ Years of Experience Across Rare Earths, Graphite, Uranium, and Iron Ore to Strengthen Technical Leadership Belo Horizonte,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Process Engineer Brings 15+ Years of Experience Across Rare Earths, Graphite, Uranium, and Iron Ore to Strengthen Technical Leadership\nBelo Horizonte, Brazil--(Newsfile Corp. - February 23, 2026) - Atlas Critical Minerals Corporation (NASDAQ: ATCX) (\"Atlas Critical Minerals\" or \"Company\"), a company focused on critical minerals for energy, technology, and defense applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of James Schloffer as Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Schloffer is an accomplished process engineer with more than 15 years of study, design, project management, commissioning and operational experience across the full project lifecycle - from process simulation, conceptual studies, and feasibility-level engineering through commissioning, plant optimization, and commercial operations. His experience spans lithium (upstream and downstream), rare earths, graphite, uranium, vanadium, and iron ore projects in multiple jurisdictions, including Brazil.\nKey Highlights\n\n\nDeep Rare Earths Expertise: Mr. Schloffer brings direct rare earths processing experience, including plant optimization and metallurgical accounting at Northern Minerals' Browns Range rare earths operation in Australia, as well as process engineering contributions to the Ngualla rare earths project in Tanzania and the Nolans Bore rare earths project in Australia. This experience is directly applicable to advancing the Company's Alto do Paranaíba and Iporá rare earths projects in Brazil.\n\n\nGraphite Processing Experience: His references include graphite concentrator process design and pre-feasibility study (PFS) deliverables for multiple graphite projects, including the Burke graphite PFS and the Carbonscape biomass-to-graphite PFS. This background supports Atlas Critical Minerals' Malacacheta Graphite Project, from which the tested material recently achieved nuclear-grade purity of 99.9995% carbon in independent testing at a premier specialized U.S. laboratory.\n\n\nUranium and Vanadium Experience: Mr. Schloffer most recently served as Lead Process Engineer on the detailed design of Deep Yellow Ltd's uranium and vanadium project for Deep Yellow Ltd, one of the most technically-advanced uranium development projects globally. He also contributed process engineering expertise to the Laguna Salada uranium and vanadium Project in Argentina. This experience...