This meeting will serve as the pre-application informational webinar for DE-FOA-0002364, "Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S. Basins."
This Office of Fossil Energy funding opportunity, titled "Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S. Basins", seeks projects that will catalyze regional economic growth and job creation by realizing the full potential value of natural resources, such as coal, across basins throughout the U.S. It has been designed to address the upstream and midstream critical minerals (CM) supply chain and downstream manufacturing of high-value, nonfuel, carbon-based products (CBP), to accelerate the realization of full potential for carbon ores and critical minerals within the U.S basins.
U.S. coals and associated by-products and waste streams can be used as feedstocks for domestic production of rare earth elements (REE) and CM to enhance our national and economic security. They can also be used as sources of carbon for production of high-value, nonfuel, CBP.
Additional details concerning this FOA can be found at FedConnect.