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Phoenix Tailings
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About Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is a U.S. clean-mining and rare-earth metals company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 by a team of MIT scientists. The company economically extracts and refines rare-earth elements and other critical minerals from mining waste, tailings and recycled feedstock using a proprietary process that combines solvent-based recovery with molten-salt electrolysis to produce rare-earth metals with zero direct carbon emissions and no reliance on Chinese inputs or technology. In October 2025 Phoenix Tailings opened a rare-earth metallization facility in Exeter, New Hampshire — among the largest of its kind in the Western world — with initial capacity of 200 tonnes per year of neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) and dysprosium-iron (DyFe) alloy and a pathway to more than 1,000 tonnes annually. The company has received state and federal funding, including grants to extract critical minerals from wastewater, strengthening domestic magnet supply chains.
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REEx maps how capital should migrate across the rare-earth supply chain—from exploration to magnets—and which bottlenecks actually determine who wins.
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Phoenix Tailings acquires Machinery Partner to build AI-driven rare earth refining platform, challenging China's dominance through automation.
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ORNL scientists achieve 92% purity extracting rare earths from mine tailings recovery using sequential leaching and solvent extraction methods.
Ex-China rare earth supply chain builds momentum as NdPr prices hold above $110/kg, validating policy-backed revenue floors amid pricing sovereignty gaps.
Phoenix Tailings raises $40.2M to scale oxide-to-metal conversion, targeting the critical midstream bottleneck in U.S. rare earth supply chains.
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Allied governments invested over $3B in critical minerals supply chain projects in 2025, yet still fall short of China's dominance in rare earths.
Mine waste recovery offers strategic optionality for critical minerals supply, but scaling from pilot to national impact remains constrained.
Phoenix Tailings joins Massachusetts AI Coalition, deploying AI in rare earth refining to optimize production & rebuild U.S. supply chains.
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Phoenix Tailings receives $1.6M DOE RECOVER award to extract critical minerals from wastewater, validating U.S. unconventional feedstock technology.
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Global rare earth supply chain shifts as India invests $816M, MP Materials partners with Saudi Arabia, and China maintains pricing power over critical minerals.
China's 85-92% control of rare earth separation and magnet production creates structural defense dependencies beyond drone manufacturing hype.
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U.S., Canada & allies invest billions in ex-China rare earth supply chain with new mines, processing plants & magnet facilities to counter Beijing's dominance.
Phoenix Tailings wins DOE ARPA-E funding to extract critical minerals from wastewater using innovative fractional distillation technology.
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German FM Wadephul's canceled Beijing trip reveals deeper tensions over China rare earth export curbs threatening Europe's EV and green tech supply chains.
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China's strategic export controls on critical rare earth minerals threaten U.S. defense, tech, and automotive industries, sparking global supply chain tensions…
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Phoenix Tailings CEO Nick Myers advocates for U.S. innovation in critical mineral supply chains, challenging global dependence and proposing breakthrough refin…
Phoenix Tailings secures Series B funding to revolutionize critical minerals independence with waste-free, non-toxic rare earth processing technology.
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