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JULY 26, 2023
Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center. The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States. It will be one of Kentucky’s largest renewable power projects once converted. The conversion is estimated to be a $1 billion solar project.
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MAY 3, 2021
San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.
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NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region.
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AUGUST 17, 2017
The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four projects to move on to a second phase of research in their efforts to advance recovery of rare earth elements (REE) from coal and coal byproducts. The solids are from Northern Appalachian and Central Appalachian bituminous coal seams in West Virginia. Earlier post.) 6 million.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.
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MARCH 16, 2015
As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).
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AUGUST 22, 2012
Startup US Fuel Corporation (USF), which plans to design, build, own and operate scalable facilities near coal mine sites to convert coal into synthetic fuels, will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property (IP) that USF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams and Steve Luck. Andrew Halarewicz, Sr.
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