NETL-Supported Project Develops Flexible Rare Earth Element Extraction from Coal Waste
October 27, 2020 - FE selected 13 projects to receive approximately $1.95 million in Federal funding to develop designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements from coal waste.
The designs will include system configurations, equipment features, performance characteristics, and associated costs for systems that produce at least 1–3 metric tons per day of mixed rare earth oxides or rare earth salts and other critical minerals in some designs.
DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory will manage the projects, which will be carried out by the following recipients:
- Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH)
- BioCarbon Technologies LLC (Missoula, MT)
- Concurrent Technologies Corporation (Johnstown, PA)
- Energy Fuels Resources (Lakewood, CO)
- MATERIA USA LLC (Inwood, NY)
- MP Mine Operations LLC (Mountain Pass, CA)
- Tetra Tech, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) Project 1
- Tetra Tech, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) Project 2
- Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX)
- University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND)
- UPSHOTS, LLC (Forsyth, GA)
- West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV)
- Winner Water Services Inc. (Sharon, PA)