Last mentioned: Mar 26, 2026
Stakeholder Webinar
NioCorp hosts live webinar to provide technical and construction updates to investors.
Ceremonial Dig
Congressman Adrian Smith joins NioCorp leadership for the ceremonial start of the dig.
Construction Launch
Official start of construction activities for the Elk Creek mine portal.
Capital Raise Closing
The company successfully closes the $100M offering, securing construction liquidity.
Public Offering Pricing
NioCorp announces pricing of $100M public offering to fund development.
NioCorp has officially commenced construction of the mine portal at its Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in Nebraska, following a successful $100 million capital raise. The company is hosting a live webinar to detail the construction roadmap for what is slated to become a critical domestic source of niobium, scandium, and titanium.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Adrian Smith across our climate coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running climate beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Adrian Smith was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |