US Department of Energy awards $75M to recover critical minerals from coal feedstocks
Funding for recovery of critical minerals from coal feedstocks could create new domestic supply streams.
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How it reaches your house.
Starting from Rare-earth elements (NdPr), we walked the supply graph hop by hop to the goods you buy and the companies you own. Each step is the engine’s reasoning, scored for confidence and cited where a source backs it.
First impact
Rare-earth elements (NdPr) →supply upNew recovery supply for NdPr rare-earth elements eases availability for rare earth magnets, which have a high critical input dependency on this material.
72% confidenceRare-earth elements (NdPr) →Stands to benefitBecause the shock is U.S. DOE funding for new recovery supply, the United States benefits as an existing but smaller rare-earth supply country.
63% confidenceGallium →supply upNew gallium recovery supply can ease availability for semiconductors and chips because gallium is marked as a critical input with moderate dependency strength of 0.5.
Hop 2
MP Materials Corp. →supply upNeodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) Oxide/Metal
MP Materials is linked by the graph as a non-sole supplier with 15% market share in NdPr oxide/metal, so net-new critical-mineral recovery supply can modestly ease availability, capped by MP's partial share.
58% confidenceChina →supply upChina supplies 95% of terbium, so new critical-mineral recovery supply from coal feedstocks can relieve availability for this China-dominated input, with only moderate magnitude because the award is upstream funding rather than immediate production.
55% confidenceLynas Rare Earths Ltd. →Prices easeHop 3
Neodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) Oxide/Metal →supply upNdPr oxide/metal is a critical input to rare earth magnets with dependency_strength 0.98, so added NdPr recovery supply should ease downstream magnet availability.
78% confidenceNeodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) Oxide/Metal →Prices easeChina accounts for 85% of NdPr oxide/metal supply, so DOE-supported non-Chinese recovery supply would most directly erode pricing leverage of the dominant incumbent supply country.
66% confidenceNeodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) Oxide/Metal →Prices ease