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Extracting Rare Earth and Critical Minerals from Coal Mine Drainage: Supplying the Nations Strategic Needs while Improving Our Streams Paul Ziemkiewicz, PhD Director, West Virginia Water Research Institute West Virginia University Academic

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  1. Extracting Rare Earth and Critical Minerals from Coal Mine Drainage: Supplying the Nation’s Strategic Needs while Improving Our Streams Paul Ziemkiewicz, PhD Director, West Virginia Water Research Institute West Virginia University Academic Media Day Morgantown WV 7oct19 ENERGY.WVU.EDU

  2. Federal Government Goal: Develop secure, domestic source of rare earth elements and critical minerals to support U.S. industry and defense establishment Funding: USDOE/National Energy Technology Laboratory Sources-Coal derived wastes: • Acid Mine Drainage-AMD • Coal Ash • Coal Tailings-Refuse ENERGY.WVU.EDU

  3. Acid Mine Drainage: Typical AMD Treatment Facility

  4. AMD Sludge Samples AMD sludge cells, Mine 42 Windber PA

  5. Regional AMD sampling program NAPP ETD39 CAPP

  6. The AMD sludge resource: Central/Northern Appalachian Coal Basins Key findings: REE content, untreated coal mine AMD CAPP 233.5 µg/L NAPP 304.2 µg/L all 286.9 µg/L grade cutoff 200 g/t ?? REE content AMD sludge: CAPP 666.4 g/t NAPP 750.6 g/t all 708.5 g/t Available REE stored at mines 350 t $ 80 million

  7. Non-Appalachian AMD reserves: Will Scarlet Mine Southern Illinois ETD 61 Will Scarlet Preliminary Assessment Area 18 ac Depth 39 ft REE concentration 975 g/t Contained value $ 166 t SL DW REE mass 156 tons REE Contained value $ 26,486,689

  8. Heavy and Critical REEs in Acid Mine Drainage n=155 Very high Yttrium content… also Nd, both used in Nd: YAG lasers Cobalt is present in all samples.

  9. Similar opportunities exist in the hard rock sector Berkeley Pit, Copper Mine, Butte MT AMD precipitates: 140 million m 3 est. REE: 12,000 t dry wt. 420 ac.

  10. Contained sludge value=market value of REEs excluding transport and processing Small AMD sludge drying cell 0.5 ac, 10 ft deep, 80% moisture Sludge DW 2,712 t $135/kg REE Contained REE value = $365,963

  11. Accessibility/Extractability/Dewatering WVDEP-Omega AMD treatment site 18 Geotubes in cell: Contained value $808,901

  12. Estimated REE production CAPP/NAPP Sludge cells sampled, this project 76 m 3 Sludge volume (Dry) 482,915 Sludge mass (Dry) 1,062,413 tons DW average TREE grade 663 g/t TREE mass 350 tons REE Basket Price (MREO) $ 237.23 /kg TREE estimated CV $ 79,633,629

  13. Mountain Pass Reserve Statement January 2012 1 TREO (tons) TREO Contained Recoverable Proven 8.5% 11,935 6,570 Probable 8.0% 1,321,723 734,593 Total 1,333,658 741,163 1 SRK Consulting, 2012 Nearly all light REEs, shipped to China for refining

  14. Be Bench ch-Scale, e, C Continuous F Flow P w Plant Rockwell Automation is providing controls, sensors and expertise AL/SX pilot Rockwell’s Support

  15. Recent ALSX results AMD sludge: Simple circuit, optimized for HREEs, thus low Nd ALSX Mass Proportionation 19'2071 mg/kg total oxides 914,450.3 91.4% unaccounted 85,549.7 8.6% LREE 163,266.3 18.6% HREE 713,079.1 81.4% TREO 876,345 87.6% TMM 38,105 3.8% TAc 0.00 0.00% Total oxides 914,450 91.4%

  16. Regulatory Issues: • Active Permits: Potential Loopholes: • Liability dumps: CERCLA (reach back) vs. SMCRA • Keep CWA and SMCRA permits in play • Remember “Coal Refuse Reprocessing?” • Abandoned Mines: CWA incentives: • NPDES? Tech Based discharge limits? • Remining discharge limits? • In-stream NPDES for watershed scale remediation? • SMCRA-termination of jurisdiction: • Does the SMCRA permit remain open during REE recovery? • NRC/UMTRCA: • Would Bevill Amendment apply if wastes are radioactive?

  17. Moving Science into the Economy • Scale up from bench to pilot plant • Use existing technology and skills • Minimize technical and economic risk

  18. WV DEP’s Muddy Creek AMD treatment plant, Albright WV Geotubes for sludge dewatering

  19. Interior of plant showing controls clarifiers, mixers, control room and lime silo

  20. WVU’s Rar are e Ear arth R Rec ecovery Team eam a awar arded $ $5 m million to o con ontinue groundbr ndbreaking ng w work The Water Research Institute at WVU was given the go ahead by the U.S Department of Energy to scale up its groundbreaking Rare Earth Recovery Project. • Contributions: • USDOE/NETL $5,000,000 • WVDEP/OSR $1,250,000 • TenCate Corp $ 537,000 • Rockwell Automation $ 100,000 • Total $6,887,000

  21. General design of the A34 plant • Near Bismarck WV • Designed to: • Treat AMD to meet CWA compliance levels • Recover high grade Rare Earth Oxide • Waste is AMD sludge without the Rare Earths • Non-hazardous • Onsite disposal

  22. Questions? • Paul Ziemkiewicz, Director • WVU Water Research Institute • pziemkie@wvu.edu • 304 293 6958 ENERGY.WVU.EDU

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