US Offers $1b in Funding to Scale Critical Mineral Supply Chains

The US Department of Energy intends to offer funding opportunities totaling nearly $1 billion “to advance and scale mining, processing, and manufacturing technologies across key stages of the critical minerals and materials supply chains,” it says in a statement.

• The proposed funding is meant to accelerate the US critical minerals and materials sector and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers, the statement says

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