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Mo. Department of Natural Resources Awarded Grant for Initiative to Assess Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals
June 15, 2021
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 15 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release:

A partnership between the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the University of Kansas will receive $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the feasibility of recovering critical minerals from coal and associated strata in the Cherokee-Forest City Basin, which encompasses Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and the Osage Nation.
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