Urban Mining, Big Promise—But Still Stuck in the Lab

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Urban mining of e-waste shows technical promise but remains years from industrial scale, limiting near-term impact on Western rare earth supply. (read full article...)

 

[Deven]

Urban mining of e-waste shows technical promise but remains years from industrial scale, limiting near-term impact on Western rare earth supply. (read full article...)

Metallium Limited - Two core business units

• Urban Mining (Waste Recycling)
  • Under a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) model, Metallium will purchase feedstock, own and operate the processing facility, and retain full economic interest in the recovered metals.
• Mineral Processing (Mining Projects)
  • Under Processing-as-a-Service (PaaS) model - Metallium partners with miners or processing plant owners by supplying equipment and services, and monetize its technology via ongoing licensing fees and, where applicable, royalties linked to production.

www.forum.rareearthexchanges.com/threads/an-introduction-to-metallium-limited.3732

Gator Point Technology Campus – a 30,000 ft facility in Anahuac, Texas just east of Houston.

• Line 1 commissioning – Q1 2026
  • Stage 1: 8,000 tons per year of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) capacity by Q3 2026
  • Stage 2: 16,000 tons per year in 2027
  • Stage 3: 50,000 tons per year in 2030

Plants can be built for $10-$20M rather than more traditional $300M+ for a RE refining plant

https://company-announcements.afr.com/asx/mtm/ab44121c-7e12-11f0-a50b-761c7b168270.pdf

• Two additional U.S. sites subject to exclusive lease option agreements:
  • Westport, Massachusetts – within Mid-City Scrap’s long-established metals campus.
  • Harrisonburg, Virginia – at Recycle Management LLC’s multi-modal recycling facility; strategically positioned near the Northern Virginia data center corridor, the world’s largest, offering potential access to hyperscale and telecom-related e-waste streams.
• Key features of both locations are as follows:
  • Both sites are already fully permitted at State and Federal levels for industrial waste and e-waste processing, removing a multi-year regulatory hurdle that typically delays U.S. recycling projects.
  • Co-located with operating scrap yards processing >20,000 tonnes/month of metal waste.
  • Equipped with rail sidings, high-capacity power, concrete pads, and warehousing.
  • Located in high e-waste generating regions, with proximity to major datacenter clusters.