This post was originally published on this site.Houston-based Frontieras North America, Western Fuels — owner and operator of the Dry Fork mine — and Western Fuels Association, a not-for-profit fuel supply cooperative have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop a mine-mouth FASForm processing facility at Dry Fork in Campbell County, Wyoming.  Dry Fork is an open-pit coal mine located eight miles north of Gillette, in the Powder River Basin. The MOU establishes a framework for the parties to negotiate long-term agreements covering a ground lease for a facility site at or adjacent to the Dry Fork mine; a coal feedstock supply agreement for Wyoming sub-bituminous coal, contemplated at up to...

This post was originally published on this site.Ionic Rare Earths (ASX: IXR) has, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Ionic Rare Earths USA, entered into a joint venture (JV) term sheet with Missouri-based US Strategic Metals (USSM) for the construction of magnet recycling facilities at USSM’s fully permitted site in Missouri.  Ionic USA and USSM have agreed to form a 50-50 JV that plans to develop an integrated campus for the production of critical minerals and metals at USSM’s 1,800-acre (728.4 ha) fully permitted site near Fredericktown.  The JV aims to construct one or more magnet and other rare earth recycling facilities at the site, processing recycled permanent...