DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation Announces $29.5 Million for National Laboratory Mining Projects | Department of Energy

t reduce risk and support future pilot‑scale operations.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California)
NOREX: Non-Destructive Ore Characterization via Integrated Spectroscopy for Efficient Sorting: This project develops an advanced ore‑sorting system that uses nuclear sensing and AI to directly measure what’s in the rock and sort minerals more efficiently.
Subsurface Electrochemical Ore Leaching (SEOL): Geochemical Optimization for Lithium Recovery from Geologic Clay Deposits: This project advances a new method that uses low‑voltage electrochemical reactions inside fract

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