The billion-dollar effort aims to speed up mineral processing and battery recycling in the US Illustration: Brittany Holloway-Brown, Photos: Adobe Stock ByTricia Crimmins   August 21, 2025   • less than 3 min read In the future, “Made in America” may not mean higher prices, at least for batteries. Earlier this month, the Department of Energy announced nearly $1 billion in funding opportunities for critical mineral mining and processing companies, in an effort to bring the supply chain back to the United States and no longer rely “on foreign actors to supply and ...

Drill rig at Tanbreez project. Credit: Critical Metals Corp. Blair McBride – The Northern Miner | August 18, 2025 | 8:29 am  Critical Metals (Nasdaq: CRML) has returned results as thick as 65 metres grading 0.55% total rare earth oxides (TREO) from surface at Tanbreez, one of the largest undeveloped heavy rare earth deposits outside China. That result in hole DDH-C-24 at the Fjord deposit in southern Greenland is top-tier and important for showing continuity in a bulk target that could support long-life production. The Tanbreez hole included 25.5% heavy ...

A new strategic facility for the innovative processing of rare earths Immediate objectives and prospects In a historical era in which operations related to the extraction, separation, and refining of rare earths are concentrated in very few nations, the rest of the world is certainly not standing idly by. The founder of TELF AG Stanislav Kondrashov often highlights this point. By Riccardo Intini Some nations are making a direct effort to bridge the gap and carve out a significant role for themselves in the production of rare earths. The founder ...

“We’re developing … technologies to make things better, faster, cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and consuming less resources,” said Bob Fox. https://youtu.be/meZzuZ_ftz8?si=lZXHWdBJr8qJKFAY Guest: Bob Fox Title: Directorate Fellow, Idaho National Labs Summary: President Trump signed an executive order in March directing an immediate increase in domestic critical mineral production. But directing and doing are two different things. The scientists at Idaho National Labs have been on the front lines of critical mineral extraction for decades and have often led the development of new technologies that make that extraction ...

Meanwhile, American firms are revving up new methods to process and recycle rare earth minerals. Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Leslie Eastman Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 09:00pm In April, I reported that China imposed significant export restrictions on seven types of rare earth elements (samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium) as part of its response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The export games continued this week as China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology jointly announced an updated version of the ...

More federal support can also accelerate promising efforts that are already underway to find viable domestic supply alternatives. The Idaho National Laboratory is leading the development of integrated separation and processing systems for rare earth–rich ore bodies, such as those at the Sheep Creek deposit in Montana. Notably, recent geological assessments at Sheep Creek suggest the site contains the highest concentrations of gallium found in any known U.S. deposit. Private sector partners such as the U.S. Critical Materials Corporation are actively seeking to scale this discovery into commercial production. ...