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CMI Project 1.1.7 Improving beneficiation efficiency via preferential breakage and physical separation

This project is directed toward improving rare earth recovery at the Rare Element Resources (RER) Bear Lodge project while also increasing process energy and water use efficiency.

CMI Project 1.1.9 Diversifying lithium supply from brines to hard-rock minerals: mechanochemical extraction of lithium at low temperature (MELLT) from α-Spodumenes

In the United States, brines are the primary source for lithium extraction. However, their long lead times and low lithium extraction yields limit their ability to meet the recent surge in demand.

CMI Project 1.1.10 Enabling lithium mudstone: the nation’s largest lithium resource (Project ELM)

High-precision geological and mineralogical characterization methods will guide the development and testing of several distinct hypothesis-driven extraction approaches for the nation’s largest lith

CMI Project 1.2.1 Advanced leaching methods to recover critical materials from mineral sources

Leaching is the first step in chemically extracting rare earth elements (REEs) from mineral sources.

CMI Project 1.2.2 Enhancing critical mineral separation with a dual-ligand approach

Rare earth element (REE) separations remain a grand challenge, accounting f

CMI Project 1.2.3 Recovery and separation of gallium and germanium from zinc wastes

The ultimate objective of this project is to selectively recover gallium (Ga) and germanium (Ge) from zinc wastes of different sources.

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CMI Project 1.2.4 Total utilization of phosphogypsum waste for production of rare earth elements, fertilizers, and construction materials

This project is designed to integrate recovery of critical elements into total utilization of the huge phosphogypsum (PG) waste from phosphate mining with five major objectives: reduce radionuclide

CMI Project 1.2.8 Selective separation of platinum group metals, precious metals, and critical elements from selenium crude residue at Kennecott Utah Copperton Concentrator

This project will: develop improved approaches to sustainably extract PGMs (platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd)), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), and precious metals (gold (Au) and silver (Ag)) from Se

CMI Project 2.1.1 Novel chemistry and processes to enable nanostructures for permanent magnets

The project will reduce the use of neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), and dysprosium (Dy) in permanent magnets using a nanostructure engineering approach.