LINCOLN — Early construction work has launched on a long-awaited critical minerals mine in southeast Nebraska, with state and local officials starting the digging during a recent briefing at the project site. The $45 million effort to construct the entrance, also known as a portal, marked the first visibly significant on-site movement at the mine, which has been talked about for years and still faces major fundraising hurdles.

NioCorp described its Elk Creek initiative as one of the few advanced U.S.-based projects capable of producing multiple critical minerals from a single orebody. It said the portal construction advances the mine project from a planning phase into pre-construction.

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