Lead Organization |
Topic Name |
Partners |
Project Location |
DOE Funding |
Cost Share |
Total Costs |
Topic 1, Area of Interest 2: Improved Beneficiation, Separation and/or Processing |
PUREgraphite LLC |
High Efficiency Continuous Graphitization Furnace Technology for Lithium-Ion Battery Synthetic Graphite Material |
Harper International, Phillips66 |
Chattanooga, TN |
$5,577,738 |
$5,925,475 |
$11,503,213 |
American Battery Metals Corporation |
Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources |
American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions |
Incline Village, NV |
$2,272,112 |
$2,272,112 |
$4,544,224 |
Topic 1, Area of Interest 3: Large Scale Projects |
General Atomics |
Rare Earth Element (REE) Separation and Processing Demonstration Project |
Rare Element Resources, Inc., Umwelt- und Ingenieurtechnik GMbH Dresden, LNV LLC |
Upton, WY |
$21,989,530 |
$21,989,530 |
$43,979,060 |
BHER Minerals, LLC |
Electrolytic Production of Battery-Grade LiOH•H2O from Geothermal Brine |
ZAP Engineering & Construction Services, Inc., CalEnergy Operating Corp, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Imperial Valley Economic Development Corporation, Momentum |
Calipatria, CA |
$14,894,540 |
$14,894,541 |
$29,789,081 |
Topic 2, Area of Interest 1: Rare Earth Element Separation |
Phinix,LLC |
Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids |
NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Clayton, MO |
$500,000 |
$225,000 |
$725,000 |
Technology Holding LLC |
Next Generation Separation Method for Rare Earths |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
West Valley City, UT |
$499,673 |
$124,999 |
$624,672 |
Topic 2, Area of Interest 2: Conversion to Rare Earth Metals (RE-metals) |
University of Wyoming |
Generation of Rare Earth Metals from Rare Earth Oxides by Using Microwave Plasma |
Colorado School of Mines, Ames Laboratory, Eutectix, Rare Element Resources |
Laramie, WY |
$500,000 |
$125,500 |
$625,500 |
Case Western Reserve University |
Novel Electrowinning Reactor for the Energy-Efficient, Low-Cost Production of Rare Earth Metals |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Cleveland, OH |
$500,000 |
$125,000 |
$625,000 |
University of Virginia |
Development of Industrial Scale Rare Earth Master Alloys from Their Native Oxides for Magnet Production |
Ames Laboratory |
Charlottesville, VA |
$500,000 |
$125,000 |
$625,000 |
Topic 2, Area of Interest 3: Li Extraction from Unconventional Sources |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Advanced Mineral Separations with Novel Simulated Moving Beds |
Colorado School of Mines, Critical Materials Institute, Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc., Standard Lithium |
Golden, CO |
$500,000 |
$156,380 |
$656,380 |
Oregon State University |
Microchannel-based Membrane-less Extraction of Li from Unconventional Lithium Sources & the Separation of REE |
University of Pittsburgh |
Corvallis, OR |
$500,000 |
$125,000 |
$625,000 |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Lithium Recovery from Unconventional Sources Using Magnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles |
Moselle Technologies, Enerplus Corporation, Prairie Lithium Corporation, Enertopia Corporation, and Dajin Lithium Corporation |
Richland, WA |
$425,000 |
$160,000 |
$585,000 |
525 Solutions, Inc. |
Ultra-High Capacity Adsorbent Nanofibrous Mats for the Recovery of Lithium from Seawater, Geothermal Brines, and Beyond |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Wyonics, LLC, University of Wyoming |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
$500,000 |
$125,024 |
$625,024 |
University of Texas at Austin |
Direct Conversion of Li-Ions to Li-Metal from Domestic Brines or Produced Water through Electromagnetically-Controlled Dendritic Electrodeposition |
University of California, Berkeley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Critical Materials Institute |
Austin, TX |
$500,000 |
$125,000 |
$625,000 |
Mineral Selective Technologies |
Informed design of crystalline ion exchangers: Improved λ-MnO2 phase for lithium extraction from geologic fluids |
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geo40, Ltd. |
Morgan Hill, CA |
$400,000 |
$100,000 |
$500,000 |
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$50,058,593 |
$46,598,561 |
$96,657,154 |