The federal Cooperative Agreement award, titled "The Alliance for Critical Mineral Extraction and Production from Coal-Based Resources for Vitality Enhancement in Domestic Supply Chains (ACME-REVIVE)", is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The $6,265,773 award supports research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies to revive a robust, 100%...
This $6,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under CFDA Program No. 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development, aims to advance technologies for critical materials extraction, recovery, separation, and purification. The key objectives are to: 1) evaluate physical upgrading technologies for sample feedstock materials, 2) extract rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals/materials (CMMs) using...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), awarded a $9,993,082 Cooperative Agreement to Winner Water Services Inc. on July 9, 2024. Through this funding, the recipient will perform a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for a 1-3 ton per day mixed rare earth oxide (MREO) extraction, separation, and refining facility capable of recovering high purity or binary rare earth metals...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $249,986 Project Grant to Microbeam Technologies Incorporated on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports the "Subsurface Characterization of Critical Minerals Using Down Hole Logging Equipment" project, which aims to develop advanced techniques for analyzing and processing critical mineral resources, particularly those found in coal-based feedstocks. The project...
This $325,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management supports research under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) to extract, separate, and produce high purity rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal-based and related resources. The University of Utah is the primary awardee and will conduct the technical work from January 2022 through April 2023. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State...
This $6,250,007 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The overall objective of this 3-year project is to design, develop, and deploy innovative process technologies to produce salable rare earth metals and critical minerals from acid mine drainage feedstocks at a reduced cost. This will help reduce the nation's vulnerability to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded $362,497 to West Virginia University Research Corporation under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) for a cooperative agreement titled "Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals from Acid Mine Drainage Feedstocks." The award, made in January 2022, will support research to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements and critical minerals from acid...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development to Georgia TECH Research Corporation. The grant aims to develop a set of robust, environmentally-friendly, and scalable ionic liquids that can efficiently leach, extract, and separate rare earth elements (REEs) from coal fly ash. The project will also work to effectively electrodeposit the REE mixture to produce purified...
This $6,390,593 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) plans to conduct pilot testing to obtain aqueous solutions rich in mixed rare earth elements, critical minerals and materials, and a lithium-containing raffinate. The primary recipient, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, will work with sub-recipient Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award in the amount of $6,740,943.00 was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The award is for the establishment of a demonstration-scale modular plant to produce rare earth metals, alumina, and lithium carbonate from bituminous coal underclay. The project, which has a performance period from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, aims to...