Mud To Metal Program for Domestic Recovery of Defense-Critical Metals

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U.S. Critical Materials Corp. and Columbia University have signed a two-year Sponsored Research Agreement to advance scientific pathways for developing future U.S. production of gallium, scandium, titanium, and rare earth elements from red mud, a byproduct of aluminum refining. The program aims to develop intensified recovery technologies and advance them toward potential field-scale deployment, including mineralogical characterization, oxidative leaching, selective separations, and techno-economic modeling.