| 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 |
| $50,058,593 | $46,598,561 | $96,657,154 | ||||
