This post was originally published on this site.Maglut Heavy Industries announced Wednesday it is developing a chromatography-based platform to process and refine rare earth elements domestically at an industry event at its pilot-scale facility in Long Beach, California.   Founded in 2025, the privately held company said it has validated its ARC-1 separation process on real-world feedstock, achieving 99.9%+ purity on individual rare earth oxides.  Rare earths are vital for electric vehicles, advanced technologies and defense systems, but the US relies heavily on foreign nations—primarily China, which controls roughly 90% of global rare earth separation and refining—for finished rare earth materials.   Maglut said its approach takes inspiration from a separation technique the biotech industry has spent decades refining to purify biologic medicines, and reinvents...

This post was originally published on this site.The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation awarded $10 million on Wednesday to seven projects that it said will accelerate the early-stage technology research and development necessary to more efficiently recover and refine critical materials required for energy technologies.  Led by the Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI Hub), the projects will focus on rare earth elements, gallium, copper, and other critical materials.  Three of the projects focus on extracting gallium from existing industrial streams—bauxite-alumina processing, zinc refinery residues, and industrial byproduct residues—to expand supply without opening new mines. Selected projects  ...