Hades

Securing the building blocks of industry. We are building the world's first Deep-Tech Resource Prime.

[Hades @Hades]

More on our partner program:

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Europe is sitting on some of the richest untapped mineral deposits on the planet.

Almost none of them are being developed.

Not because the rock isn't there. Because the cost of getting to it never made sense. 🧵

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We're looking for the next partners for exactly that.

If you're running a project, sitting on a deposit, or know the ground better than anyone else does — let's talk. 👇

[Hades @Hades]

Technology Deep Dive – Why Laser Drilling Is the Future

Conventional mechanical drilling hits physical limits as depth and rock hardness increase — wear, speed, and cost all scale disproportionately.

That's exactly what makes many deep deposits economically unattractive: not because too little is there, but because access is too expensive. The reason: drilling accounts for 50 to 70 percent of total capital expenditure in most resource and energy projects — by far the largest cost driver in resource extraction.

Our drill, Cerberus, fundamentally changes this ratio. Cerberus is a high-power optical drill. A laser beam is guided through a fiber optic cable via an optical drill head down to the bottom of the borehole. There, the laser beam heats the rock until it fractures off ("spalling") — with no mechanical contact between drill head and rock at all. Beam delivery, flushing, and sensing are integrated into a single unit.

What this means in practice:
✅ Faster penetration — the laser removes hard rock at significantly higher rates than mechanical methods
✅ No wear on the drill head — substantially lower costs due to fewer tool changes (round trips)
✅ Real-time sensing — the fiber connection enables live data and precise control while drilling
✅ Higher precision — through adaptive regulation and control

The result: faster, cheaper, and deeper access to resources that would be uneconomical with conventional technology.

Storkwitz is the first project where Cerberus demonstrates what this means in practice.

[Hades @Hades]

Warum seltene Erden über die Zukunftsfähigkeit der europäischen Industrie entscheiden

Ohne Permanentmagnete aus seltenen Erden läuft in der modernen Industrie fast nichts mehr:

Elektromotoren in E-Autos, Windturbinen, Robotik und Automatisierung, MRT-Geräte – aber auch Radar-, Sensor- und Antriebssysteme in der Verteidigungsindustrie.

Laut Internationaler Energieagentur (IEA) entfallen 95 % des weltweiten Werts der Seltenerdnachfrage auf Permanentmagnete.

Und diese Nachfrage wächst rasant: Seit 2015 hat sich die Nachfrage nach den magnetrelevanten Seltenen Erden (Neodymium, Praseodymium, Dysprosium, Terbium) bereits verdoppelt.

Bis 2030 erwartet die IEA unter aktuellen politischen Rahmenbedingungen ein weiteres Plus von einem Drittel – getrieben vor allem durch E-Mobilität und Windenergie. Danach übernehmen zunehmend Automatisierung, Robotik und Rechenzentren die Rolle als Wachstumstreiber.

Das Problem: Die Versorgung ist hochkonzentriert. China kontrolliert laut IEA 60 % der weltweiten Förderung, 91 % der Weiterverarbeitung und 94 % der Produktion von Permanentmagneten.

Als China die Exportkontrollen 2025 verschärfte, kam es prompt zu Produktionsausfällen bei Automobilherstellern in den USA und Europa.

Die IEA beziffert das wirtschaftliche Risiko einer vollständigen Umsetzung solcher Kontrollen auf 6,5 Billionen US-Dollar gefährdeter Wertschöpfung pro Jahr außerhalb Chinas – für Europa und die USA jeweils über 1,5 Billionen US-Dollar.

Selbst mit allen geplanten Kapazitätserweiterungen außerhalb Chinas würde die bestehende Infrastruktur bis 2035 nur einen Bruchteil des Bedarfs decken: rund die Hälfte bei der Förderung, ein Viertel bei der Raffination, deutlich unter 20 % bei der Magnetproduktion.

Genau hier setzt Storkwitz an – das einzige bekannte Seltenerdvorkommen in Deutschland. Keine Alleinlösung für Diversifizierung, aber ein konkreter erster Baustein, um die eigene Position in einer Lieferkette zu verbessern, die zunehmend zum geopolitischen Risikofaktor wird.

[Hades @Hades]

"Germany securing an exploration license over its only known significant rare earth occurrence is an important geopolitical milestone."

We couldn't have put it any better.

https://t.co/ZTUhOS5Iwm

[Hades @Hades]

Known critical mineral deposits across Europe that nobody develops. Not because they're not there — because conventional tech makes them uneconomical.

That's where we come in.

Storkwitz just proved it: decades-old deposit, now accessible for the first time.

Know a project stuck behind that same cost barrier? Let's talk.

https://t.co/xpFRY9uTB3

Sovereignty starts subsurface.

[MINING.COM @mining]

Hades licence win puts Germany on rare earth map https://t.co/MfvPA5w76c

[Hades @Hades]

@POTFES Hell yeah why not. Drop @s_steinicke a message and he will take it from there.

[Christian Reber 🇪🇺 @christianreber]

We invested in @Hades because we think Europe needs to remember how to build hard things. Today the team received the exploration licence for Storkwitz in Saxony, one of Europe’s most important known rare earth deposits.

This matters because the future is physical. AI, energy, robotics, defence, transportation - all of it depends on materials, machines, and supply chains. For too long, Europe has acted as if these foundations would just be there when needed. They won’t be, unless people build them.

The Storkwitz deposit was discovered decades ago and then largely forgotten. Now it may become part of a much bigger story: Europe rebuilding more of its own industrial sovereignty.

Learn more about it here: https://t.co/Q7etnLnYFV

[Hades @Hades]

@christianreber Thank you, @christianreber — for believing early that this was worth building, and for putting it this simply: the future is physical.

Storkwitz was forgotten for decades. Not anymore.

Let's build.

[Hades @Hades]

Sovereignty begins subsurface.

[Max Werner @drwerner]

Central Europe's Largest Rare Earth Deposit Has a Licence Holder

One year after founding Hades, we hold the exploration licence for Storkwitz. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung covers the full story today in print and online.

Storkwitz is the best-explored rare earth deposit in Central Europe, and in all likelihood the largest. GDR geologists drilled 49 holes near Delitzsch between 1973 and 1985; their work indicates 38,000 tonnes of rare earth oxides and 8,000 tonnes of niobium pentoxide. A 2013 JORC-compliant assessment confirmed 20,100 tonnes in the upper 600 metres alone - with the deposit open at depth. That includes the NdPr behind permanent magnets for EVs, wind turbines and defence systems. Europe imports almost all of it. Storkwitz can change that.

The licence secures exclusivity while we assess how our technology can extract the deposit safely, sustainably and economically. Advanced exploration starts immediately.

Thank you to the Sächsisches Oberbergamt Freiberg for record processing speed. Next time someone tells you Europe is slow, tell them about Saxony.

Full project data and source documents: https://t.co/YuCutVEfWP

Sovereignty Begins Subsurface.

[Hades @Hades]

6/ Storkwitz ist der erste Beweis für unser Geschäftsmodell.

An mehr arbeiten wir bereits.

Sovereignty begins subsurface.

https://t.co/LoH8Hk753u

[Hades @Hades]

1/ Deutschland hat heute ein eigenes, konkretes Seltenerdprojekt: Storkwitz.

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5/ Unser Modell ist vertikal integriert — von der Lizenz bis zur Produktion.

Ein Projekt, ein System, keine Bruchstellen.