Project Grant A13AP00017

The University of Delaware will receive $217,393 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to assess present and future sand resource needs and supply in coastal Delmarva. Funded through BOEM's Marine Minerals Activities program (CFDA 15.424), the University will identify and evaluate offshore continental shelf sediment for potential use in coastal restoration and beach nourishment projects or programs through November...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA 15.073) provides $475,365.72 to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to conduct an integrated stratigraphic and geochemical investigation exploring for heavy mineral placers in ancient shoreline deposits of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain in North Carolina. The key activities funded under this 3-year project include identifying...

Mineralogic LLC received a $254,741 National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I Project Grant to develop predictive tools for characterizing carbon sequestration in mined materials. The grant was awarded February 1, 2021 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop science and engineering solutions to national challenges. The project aims to advance predictive modeling capabilities to analyze how mined materials can capture and store carbon through natural...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $1,140,007 to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain to support collaborative geomorphology research. The key products and services being delivered under this 4-year award, which begins on August 15, 2024, include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for uniform data acquisition in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Cornell University provides $492,090 in funding to study the impacts of mineralogy on aggregate crushing. The research aims to unravel the mechanisms of dry polymineralic grain crushing to enable more energy-efficient industrial applications. Key activities include: Measuring intra- and inter-mineral bonding properties in quartzitic and granitic aggregates Conducting single-particle crushing tests...

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will receive $244,370 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States Geological Survey under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative program (CFDA 15.073) to characterize critical mineral endowments in mine waste sites in New Mexico. The two-year project will assess mine waste at the Copper Flat, Black Hawk, and Carlisle Center mining districts for their potential to contain critical minerals. Deliverables will include maps of mine...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Marine Minerals Activities program (CFDA 15.424) provides $125,000.00 in funding to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, for a comparative study of marine mineral resource management practices in the context of wind energy development in the North Atlantic region. The award supports a research project...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to investigate the provenance of rare earth element-bearing monazite minerals in the Southeastern U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain. The $147,775 award, made to Syracuse University, aims to explore potential bedrock and sedimentary sources of monazite and develop improved methods for locating these critical mineral deposits. The research will employ mass...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), aims to assess and document Puerto Rico's industrial mineral resources to support disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience efforts. The $499,917 award, with a performance period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028, will be carried out by the University of Puerto Rico's Research and Development Center Division. The key activities include developing a comprehensive...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (CFDA #15.073), will fund the University of Oklahoma to characterize mine waste at the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma. The $299,175 project, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will composite sample approximately 110 mine waste features (chat piles and tailing ponds) to analyze their heterogeneity and determine the presence of critical...