Your post is factually incorrect, or else a straw man argument, depending on how you want to parse words.
The question isn't whether the USDOE provides loans "for the purchase of mineral resources." The question is, does the USDOE provide loans for the extraction of critical minerals, lithium being a USDOE-listed critical mineral. As per this link, which happens to be from the DOE/LPO website, it does:
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/january-2024-monthly-application-activity-report
Towards the bottom it lists the categories that are eligible for loans, and lo and behold, Number 7 of 14 categories is, and I quote:
"Critical Materials (Extraction, Manufacturing, MINING, Extraction, Recovery, Recycling)"
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