By Reuters

(Reuters) - The United States is planning to inject $1.6 billion into Oklahoma-based miner USA Rare Earth and will receive a 10% stake ​in the company, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people ‌familiar with the matter.

The government investment and a separate $1 billion private financing deal are slated to ‌be announced on Monday, the report said.

The White House and USA Rare Earth did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

The government would receive 16.1 million shares in the rare earths company, along with warrants for a further 17.6 million, both ⁠priced at $17.17, the report ‌said.

USA Rare Earth's stock rose almost 40% in premarket trading on Monday.

Washington said in December last year it was planning more "historic deals" with the U.S. mining sector to increase domestic production of ‍lithium, rare earths and other minerals used for national defense and rely less on China, which has used its minerals prowess as leverage in trade negotiations.

Last year, the administration took ​equity stakes in MP Materials , Lithium Americas and Trilogy Metals .

The deal with USA ‌Rare Earth was "focused on onshoring critical and strategic minerals essential to the semiconductor supply chain and US national security," the FT quoted an official in the U.S. Commerce Department's CHIPS office, which provides incentives for investment and equipment in the U.S., as saying.

The company has also brought in Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment banking ⁠and brokerage firm chaired by Brandon Lutnick, the ​son of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, ​to lead efforts to raise more than $1 billion in fresh equity, the FT said.