Rare earth elements (REEs), which comprise of only 17 elements from the entire periodic table, play a critical role to our national security, energy independence, environmental future, and economic growth. Many advanced technologies have components made from REEs such as magnets, batteries, phosphors, and catalysts.

Rare earth elements (REEs)—a subset of critical minerals and materials (Figure 1)—are essential materials in a broad range of technologies significant to national security, energy systems, medicine, and consumer products (Figure 2).

Build reliable, resilient, affordable, and secure domestic critical mineral and materials supply chains that support the energy, manufacturing, and transportation economies while promoting safe solutions to meet current and future needs. Learn more about the CMM program at DOE: Building Secure Supply Chains for America's Energy Future.

The University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) will complete a study to recover and refine rare earth elements and critical minerals from North Dakota lignite mine wastes. The project aims to advance technologies that can enable a cost-competitive, environmentally sensitive process to produce rare earth metals and critical minerals ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $17.5 million for four projects that will help lower the costs and reduce the environmental impacts of the onshore production of rare earths and other critical minerals and materials from coal, coal wastes, and …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced over $17 million for three projects that will support the design and construction of facilities that produce rare earth elements and other critical minerals and materials from coal-based resources.

The over-arching mission of DOE-NETL’s Critical Minerals and Materials program is to rebuild U.S. leadership role in extraction and processing technologies to support an economically, environmentally benign, and geopolitically sustainable U.S. domestic supply chain for production of rare earths and critical minerals for clean energy and ...

The Critical Materials Innovation Hub is a U.S. DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Ames National Laboratory that seeks to accelerate innovative scientific and technological solutions to develop resilient and secure supply chains for rare earth metals and other materials critical to the success of energy technologies.

On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), in collaboration with DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), announced up to $19.5 million in federal funding to advance technologies that will help reduce costs for recovering critical minerals and ...

The Annual Global Rare Earth Market was ~$8 billion in 2018 • The US only consumes around 7% of global demand by weight • Almost all rare earths are currently being imported • The US imported $2.6 trillion worth of finished products in 2018 • The top 4 product groups account for ~50% of the imported value