Niocorp Developments Ltd (NB)

[PutzMueler]

I was doing a little research as well and a light bulb went off in my head.

I guess this is also when the light bulb went off for Mark Smith to Add REE's,
(FoxBusiness News)

The Time-line is the same, so are we the leader or the follower?

required existing domestic small pilot-scale facilities to co-produce CM in addition to
producing REE.

efforts were initiated that addressed the development of innovative, cost-reduced processing for the separation of
mixed critical minerals into individual or binary, high purity rare earth oxides (REO) and CM, and reduction of these materials
to metals for use in alloy production, advanced technology development, and component manufacturing.

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AND
CRITICAL MINERALS

In order to comply with Executive Order 13817 [1], DOE’s program expanded its technology development effort in 2019 to
include the recovery of critical minerals (CM) from coal-based resources. As a result, DOE’s program in 2020, renamed as the
Critical Minerals Sustainability program, required existing domestic small pilot-scale facilities to co-produce CM in addition to
producing REE. In 2021, DOE Fossil Energy Carbon Management’s (FECM) program initiated basinal coalition efforts to address
the full economic potential value of U.S. natural resources for producing REE, CM, and high-value, nonfuel, carbon-based
products, and to holistically assess not only upstream mining of resources and physical separation (e.g., beneficiation), but
also midstream processing, separation, recovery and purification of critical and high-value materials, and ultimately onshore
downstream manufacturing that incorporates these materials into consumer or national defense products. Additionally, in
2021, efforts were initiated that addressed the development of innovative, cost-reduced processing for the separation of
mixed critical minerals into individual or binary, high purity rare earth oxides (REO) and CM, and reduction of these materials
to metals for use in alloy production, advanced technology development, and component manufacturing.

https://netl.doe.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/Program-141.pdf