U.S. DOE Awards Texas Mineral Resources Consortium Major Grant Targeting the Production of Rare-Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Coal Mining Waste Material (Ash?)

Coal and Related Carbon Resources / Exploration, Production, Coal Ash, & Rare Earths

Texas Mineral Resources Corp., an exploration company targeting the heavy rare-earths and a variety of other high-value elements and industrial minerals, announce that DOE Office of Fossil Energy selected a Texas Mineral Resources consortium assembled by Texas Mineral Resources as one of only three projects to each receive a $1 million grant as part of a two-phase $23.75 million Funding Opportunity Announcement published in September 2016 (FOA-0001627)... Production of Rare-Earth Elements from Domestic U.S. Coal and Coal Byproducts. TMRC project partners include Inventure Renewables Inc (Tuscaloosa, AL), K-Technologies Inc (Lakeland, FL) and Penn State University (State College, PA). The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to ultimately install a self-contained, modular and portable continuous ion exchange/continuous ion chromatography (CIX and CIC) pilot plant at a selected Pennsylvania site, and to determine the economic viability of profitably producing scandium and other rare-earth minerals associated with coal-waste material from Pennsylvania coal. The process development planned for this project and the experience gained will also apply directly to their Round Top heavy rare-earth deposit near El Paso, Texas. DOE press release may be found at the following link: bit.ly/2sqrIw6